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20,358,774 | 20,356,377 | 1 | 3 | 20,355,477 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nihonde</author><text>There’s a word missing in the text of one of the screenshots in the App Store. (I’m in the Japan App Store, if that matters.)<p>“...are you done your task?”<p>Also, notifications is spelled incorrectly. Those kinds of mistakes indicate a lack of attention to detail.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jpulgarin</author><text>Hey HN! My name is Julian, and I made Effortless with aracena to solve a problem we were both having: how to focus on exactly one thing at a time. Effortless displays my current task, and a countdown timer in the menu bar, and although it sounds silly, it means that I have a constant visual reminder of what I should be working on. Effortless was also a great excuse to learn Swift and native Mac app development. I&#x27;m happy to answer any questions about the app or the development process, although it&#x27;s my birthday so I might be a little slow to respond. If you have any feedback or want a trial code to test Effortless out feel free to write me at [email protected] . Thanks!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time</title><url>https://apps.apple.com/us/app/effortless/id1368722917</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snazz</author><text>Specific question: are the keyboard shortcuts accessible from anywhere? If so, using them would mean I couldn’t close a browser tab or reload a page, because it would be forwarded to Effortless instead, right?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jpulgarin</author><text>Hey HN! My name is Julian, and I made Effortless with aracena to solve a problem we were both having: how to focus on exactly one thing at a time. Effortless displays my current task, and a countdown timer in the menu bar, and although it sounds silly, it means that I have a constant visual reminder of what I should be working on. Effortless was also a great excuse to learn Swift and native Mac app development. I&#x27;m happy to answer any questions about the app or the development process, although it&#x27;s my birthday so I might be a little slow to respond. If you have any feedback or want a trial code to test Effortless out feel free to write me at [email protected] . Thanks!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time</title><url>https://apps.apple.com/us/app/effortless/id1368722917</url></story> |
36,358,657 | 36,358,108 | 1 | 3 | 36,356,957 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheCapn</author><text>I think one looking for alternatives needs to understand what they&#x27;re hoping to gain from other resources.<p>If you want low effort jokes, or memes, the most likely outcome is you&#x27;re going to migrate to where the most people are. Similar to how some subreddits overtook others in popularity, there&#x27;ll be a federated instance that &quot;wins&quot;. We&#x27;re sort of in a new frontiers phase where people are scrambling to find new homes and there&#x27;ll be a lot of duplication until winners and losers are settled.<p>But in the end, if good memes come out of the most populous place. Reddit will probably just simply be the best you have. Anything else will be second rate. Perhaps &#x27;the best&#x27; will make its rounds through all sites as reposts just as 9Gag stuff and Imgur stuff finds its way to Reddit or Twitter, or TikTok.<p>But back to the main point. Lemmy&#x2F;kbin&#x2F;etc likely will never <i>be</i> reddit. I&#x27;m okay with that because I found most value in smaller niche communities (similar to how HackerNews scratches an itch that Reddit never could). I think there&#x27;ll be plenty of opportunity to drop my reddit habits as I find moderately active NetSec&#x2F;Programming&#x2F;Networking&#x2F;etc. communities on Lemmy. I&#x27;ll keep Imgur for lazy image humor, and probably nod to reddit for catching the beat on my local community&#x2F;provincial subs.<p>I still see it perhaps as a positive for myself. Loosening my Reddit addiction will be healthy long term. I&#x27;ll be forced to make decisions on what topics matter to me and how I&#x27;ll consume them instead of blindly marching through reddit on another doomscroll because it was convenient.</text><parent_chain><item><author>marktangotango</author><text>I&#x27;ve been exploring the fediverse options like kbin and lemmy and I just don&#x27;t see it. Maybe someone can explain. If one lemmy instance has a really popular community, say &quot;Memes&quot; how can that scale? There could be millions of posts and terabytes of data. Then if multiple lemmy instances have their own &quot;Memes&quot; communities, that&#x27;s balkanized and a user would have to subscribe to each instances &quot;Memes&quot; community?<p>Or are communities federated also? Like all instances &quot;Memes&quot; communities get pulled together? Examining [1] that appears to not be the case.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lemmy.world&#x2F;c&#x2F;android" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lemmy.world&#x2F;c&#x2F;android</a></text></item><item><author>BeefWellington</author><text>&gt; delete your comments<p>Given reddit is apparently restoring deleted comments, that&#x27;s going to be a useless gesture.[1]<p>I agree with the sentiment though; if people en masse migrated away from Reddit the way they did with Digg, that would be the only really impactful long-term gesture.<p>Edit: Regarding the sockpuppet thing, I mean, we&#x27;ve literally seen that happen a number of times. When you see an account created in 2023 with no comment activity at all post, sure, that could be a lurker deciding to comment on this one very contentious issue. When you see a dozen in a sub that has 100k subscribers, that&#x27;s odd but probably not unreasonable. When you see thousands, maybe something is going on.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;comments&#x2F;14av2z3&#x2F;reports_of_reddit_restoring_deleted_commentsposts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;comments&#x2F;14av2z3&#x2F;reports_of...</a></text></item><item><author>llm_nerd</author><text>It&#x27;s a pretty common sentiment that opinions that differ from our own must be corrupt, bought, sock-puppets, etc. People on virtually every side of any issue feel this way because it&#x27;s comforting to imagine that our own opinion is the only authentic one.<p>Loads of reddit users are annoyed by the blackout thing and find the arguments for it unconvincing. I mean personally I think all of the blackout people should just leave Reddit. Delete your accounts, delete your comments, resign as mods. Let the rest of reddit just move on.</text></item><item><author>AnotherGoodName</author><text>Ha. There were some weird posts from new users in subreddits I frequent.<p>&#x27;we need to rise up against the mods the blackout is an outrage!&#x27;<p>It was met with unanimous wtf is wrong with you, go outside. I get the feeling spez is creating new accounts and posting as them again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-will-change-rules-to-make-mods-less-powerful-2023-6</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sandyarmstrong</author><text>You can have an account on one instance and subscribe to a community on another. There&#x27;s no need for every instance to have a &quot;memes&quot; community, though there will undoubtedly be more than one. Then you can subscribe to the one(s) you like best. Not unlike how Reddit tends to have multiple subreddits for popular things with different mods, norms, and feels.</text><parent_chain><item><author>marktangotango</author><text>I&#x27;ve been exploring the fediverse options like kbin and lemmy and I just don&#x27;t see it. Maybe someone can explain. If one lemmy instance has a really popular community, say &quot;Memes&quot; how can that scale? There could be millions of posts and terabytes of data. Then if multiple lemmy instances have their own &quot;Memes&quot; communities, that&#x27;s balkanized and a user would have to subscribe to each instances &quot;Memes&quot; community?<p>Or are communities federated also? Like all instances &quot;Memes&quot; communities get pulled together? Examining [1] that appears to not be the case.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lemmy.world&#x2F;c&#x2F;android" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lemmy.world&#x2F;c&#x2F;android</a></text></item><item><author>BeefWellington</author><text>&gt; delete your comments<p>Given reddit is apparently restoring deleted comments, that&#x27;s going to be a useless gesture.[1]<p>I agree with the sentiment though; if people en masse migrated away from Reddit the way they did with Digg, that would be the only really impactful long-term gesture.<p>Edit: Regarding the sockpuppet thing, I mean, we&#x27;ve literally seen that happen a number of times. When you see an account created in 2023 with no comment activity at all post, sure, that could be a lurker deciding to comment on this one very contentious issue. When you see a dozen in a sub that has 100k subscribers, that&#x27;s odd but probably not unreasonable. When you see thousands, maybe something is going on.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;comments&#x2F;14av2z3&#x2F;reports_of_reddit_restoring_deleted_commentsposts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;comments&#x2F;14av2z3&#x2F;reports_of...</a></text></item><item><author>llm_nerd</author><text>It&#x27;s a pretty common sentiment that opinions that differ from our own must be corrupt, bought, sock-puppets, etc. People on virtually every side of any issue feel this way because it&#x27;s comforting to imagine that our own opinion is the only authentic one.<p>Loads of reddit users are annoyed by the blackout thing and find the arguments for it unconvincing. I mean personally I think all of the blackout people should just leave Reddit. Delete your accounts, delete your comments, resign as mods. Let the rest of reddit just move on.</text></item><item><author>AnotherGoodName</author><text>Ha. There were some weird posts from new users in subreddits I frequent.<p>&#x27;we need to rise up against the mods the blackout is an outrage!&#x27;<p>It was met with unanimous wtf is wrong with you, go outside. I get the feeling spez is creating new accounts and posting as them again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-will-change-rules-to-make-mods-less-powerful-2023-6</url></story> |
20,894,289 | 20,893,611 | 1 | 2 | 20,892,421 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cadence-</author><text>Americans have been dismantling and weakening their regulatory bodies for quite a while now. The idea is that this will unshackle big corporations and allow them to innovate faster. This sounds like a great idea, until you realize that this “innovation” is most often about increasing profits. And the quality of the product is often sacrificed to increase profits. Just look at what is happening to telecommunication services, with big corporations growing their profits while Americans get stuck with slow and expensive service that becomes relatively worse comparing to other western countries.<p>Lack of proper regulation (or enforcement) might lead to short-term gains in some economic indicators, but in the long term will lead to worse quality, relative decline of America comparing to other countries, and sometimes -like in this case- avoidable deaths of hundreds of innocent people.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EASA Insists on Testing Boeing 737 Max Itself Before Lifting Ban</title><url>https://simpleflying.com/easa-737-max-test/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nolok</author><text>It’s important to understand that the main threat to both agency from this issue is very different.<p>The threat to the FAA is external, they risk losing their worldwide stamp “if we validate it then the rest of the world do”. That means the long term damage they risk is much bigger, but the short term and political one is non existent, they just need to convince everyone that nothing happened and they’re back at their game. For the FAA either nothing change or they lose some standing and power, there is no path where they come out better than before.<p>The EASA complaints are internal, each country and the remnants of their own agency blaming them for accepting the plane validation from the FAA when it’s clear they shouldn’t have. Short term they look stupid, but either they go back to the old position like nothing happened, or they make themselves more powerful and independent compared to the FAA on such issue, possibly getting other countries outside EU&#x2F;USA to listen to them as much if not more than to the FAA.<p>Up until now the word of the FAA may as well have been the word of god in that field, they risk losing it, and the EASA is in a good place to get a good piece of it.<p>So the FAA needs to downplay it as much as possible, and the EASA needs to instead make it into as much of a big deal as possible. Of course the EASA is very much helped by the fact that it was indeed a totally avoidable yet complete failure and disaster that, from a regulatory perspective, can be entirely pinned down on the FAA.<p>All they need to do is point at the fact unaltered, and say “the only way we can stop that from happening again is if you agree to give us authority to check all the plane ourselves without automatically accepting the FAA approval”.<p>I just hope it will give us better oversight, Boeing, Airbus, newcomers from China etc ... We can’t afford so many death for such stupid reasons. The max fiasco is really an insult to the entire industry, and I’m sure many “older” people in Boeing feel ashamed of how far their company has fallen.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EASA Insists on Testing Boeing 737 Max Itself Before Lifting Ban</title><url>https://simpleflying.com/easa-737-max-test/</url></story> |
23,937,213 | 23,934,448 | 1 | 2 | 23,933,966 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>breakingcups</author><text>Again, more magic comments.<p>The proposed feature is great, but the unwillingness of the Go team to use a separate, clearly defined project file or at the very least a separate syntax in your code file leads them to stuff every additional feature into comments, a space shared by human notetaking.<p>Let&#x27;s have a look:
* Build constraints (&#x2F;&#x2F; +build linux)
* Code generation (&#x2F;&#x2F;go:generate &lt;command&gt; &lt;arguments&gt;)
* Cgo, you can even stuff entire C programs in the comments (&#x2F;&#x2F; #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;)
* Cgo flags (&#x2F;&#x2F; #cgo CFLAGS: -DPNG_DEBUG=1)
* and now this, file embedding (&#x2F;&#x2F;go:embed html&#x2F;index.html)<p>Most novices would assume the commented out code does nothing, and rightly so in my opinion.
Half of these features aren&#x27;t even code-file specific but project-wide, making deciding which file to put them in hard and looking them up even harder.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go command support for embedded static assets (files)</title><url>https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/draft-embed.md</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leetrout</author><text>That’s showing some real support to the community IMO.<p>There are plenty of purists that argue both for and against the concept but one cannot deny it fits very well in the sales pitch for Go. You can have a simple tool chain to ship a binary for any number of systems and that support for embedded assets would be a first class citizen.<p>I would also love to see them address more robust plugin options or officially adopt &#x2F; endorse the pattern HashiCorp uses as they’re doing here with the bindata prior art.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go command support for embedded static assets (files)</title><url>https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/draft-embed.md</url></story> |
18,354,436 | 18,354,058 | 1 | 2 | 18,351,312 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MichaelAO</author><text>Check out Better Explained for a good intuitive guide to linear algebra (among other things): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;betterexplained.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;matrix-multiplication&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;betterexplained.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;matrix-multiplication&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>geokon</author><text>Where is the text? Or is this an advertisement for a book?<p>Since this might get the right eyeballs here:<p>1. Does anyone have a good intuitive explanation for the meaning of the transpose operation? It seems to tie into a central symmetry between columns and rows (or equations and variables) that I&#x27;m having trouble articulating for myself<p>2. Why does every linear algebra book have a chapter on norms? It&#x27;s always so incredibly boring and esoteric and I still haven&#x27;t hit a situation where it&#x27;s strictly necessary. The 2-norm seem adequate for most situations and comes out naturally from the least squares problem<p>PS: Strang is great. Meyer&#x27;s &quot;Matrix analysis and applied linear algebra&quot; is even better (but more advanced)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Getting started with linear algebra</title><url>https://hadrienj.github.io/posts/Deep-Learning-Book-Series-Introduction/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>weavie</author><text>Click on the numbered headings. They don&#x27;t look like links, but take you to the text for that section.</text><parent_chain><item><author>geokon</author><text>Where is the text? Or is this an advertisement for a book?<p>Since this might get the right eyeballs here:<p>1. Does anyone have a good intuitive explanation for the meaning of the transpose operation? It seems to tie into a central symmetry between columns and rows (or equations and variables) that I&#x27;m having trouble articulating for myself<p>2. Why does every linear algebra book have a chapter on norms? It&#x27;s always so incredibly boring and esoteric and I still haven&#x27;t hit a situation where it&#x27;s strictly necessary. The 2-norm seem adequate for most situations and comes out naturally from the least squares problem<p>PS: Strang is great. Meyer&#x27;s &quot;Matrix analysis and applied linear algebra&quot; is even better (but more advanced)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Getting started with linear algebra</title><url>https://hadrienj.github.io/posts/Deep-Learning-Book-Series-Introduction/</url></story> |
14,774,004 | 14,773,954 | 1 | 3 | 14,773,298 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>redtuesday</author><text>Like I have written in the other thread already: add to that the ECC support of Threadripper [0], 20 more PCIe lanes and no raid key shenanigans (on Intels x299 you have to pay 100$ extra for RAID 1 and 300$ for RAID 5 support with their VROC feature [1]). Unless you really need AVX 512 and better single thread performance (and 2 more cores in case of the not available 18 core part), why would you buy Intels new offering? Because you can reuse the cooler since it&#x27;s compatible with x99?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Amd&#x2F;comments&#x2F;6icdyo&#x2F;amd_threadripper_supports_up_to_256gb_of_ram_942&#x2F;dj5lhs7&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Amd&#x2F;comments&#x2F;6icdyo&#x2F;amd_threadrippe...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;TWFzWRoVNnE?t=11m38s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;TWFzWRoVNnE?t=11m38s</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD Threadripper prices undercut Intel's Core i9 by as much as $1,000</title><url>http://www.pcworld.com/article/3207747/components/amd-threadripper-prices-and-release-date.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tgtweak</author><text>The 12 core threadripper (1920) is comparable with the 10 core 7900X in temrs of milticore performance, while still $200 cheaper. You can&#x27;t compare only on the basis of core count as this review did.<p>More detailed review here:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wccftech.com&#x2F;amd-ryzen-threadripper-1950x-cpu-performance-benchmarks-leak&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wccftech.com&#x2F;amd-ryzen-threadripper-1950x-cpu-perform...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD Threadripper prices undercut Intel's Core i9 by as much as $1,000</title><url>http://www.pcworld.com/article/3207747/components/amd-threadripper-prices-and-release-date.html</url></story> |
5,927,740 | 5,927,279 | 1 | 2 | 5,927,181 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drawkbox</author><text>Playing devil&#x27;s advocate here, and watched a bunch of spy movies...<p>What if Snowden is still a CIA agent (he was a CIA agent for years before NSA) and this is actually a snowjob&#x2F;whitewash by the government to deflect attention or essentially control the message about news they knew would be released (diffusing that&#x2F;controlling that message) and black-ops about China, Russia, Cuba + Venezuela how they treat&#x2F;process possible &#x27;traitors&#x27; or spies?<p>I hope that is not the case and he is sincere, it would be great if the US could just pardon him and address our Constitutional issues. But if they pardon him doesn&#x27;t the above seem like an outside possibility?<p>Or am I reading too much Tom Clancy and watching too many spy movies?<p>It does seem most whistleblowers are swept under the rug but here you have one that is garnering lots of news and attracting lots of attention across multiple weeks&#x2F;weekends to things that were previously labeled &#x27;conspiracy&#x27; or only seen in movies (yet have been in the news quietly before, since 9&#x2F;11). Now it is international news everywhere. He is almost the perfect leaker, making more waves than all combined.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Official statement from WikiLeaks regarding Edward Snowden's exit from Hong Kong</title><url>http://wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-Statement-On-Edward.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>synctext</author><text>Why is this trip of Snowden made into a media event?<p>The Aeroflot flight number was public!
Is this to counter a secret rendition attempt? Did we wake-up in a world with 007 stuff happening to real computer nerds, not just high-paid actors?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Official statement from WikiLeaks regarding Edward Snowden's exit from Hong Kong</title><url>http://wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-Statement-On-Edward.html</url></story> |
10,263,315 | 10,262,543 | 1 | 3 | 10,261,911 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vollmarj</author><text>Happy to clear that up. We don&#x27;t count hobby farms as they aren&#x27;t our typical users. We are focusing on the ~280k row crop farms in the US of which over 90k have started using FarmLogs. Most of our customers have between 600 and 10k acres of land each.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wooster</author><text>This number (&quot;one in three&quot;) is really ambiguous[0], as I haven&#x27;t seen them state what they consider a farm to be. It could be the Ag Census data (~2.2 million farms), or along some subset (say non-family farms at ~90 thousand), or some farm type (I believe I&#x27;ve previously seen them say &quot;row crop farms&quot;).<p>I&#x27;m sure it seems like an impressive stat to throw out there, but it&#x27;s a lot like saying they&#x27;re offering a million shares of options to new employees; without the total number of shares we don&#x27;t know what that means.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epa.gov&#x2F;agriculture&#x2F;ag101&#x2F;demographics.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epa.gov&#x2F;agriculture&#x2F;ag101&#x2F;demographics.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One in Three Farms Is Using FarmLogs</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/22/one-in-three-farms-are-using-farmlogs-to-power-their-yields-with-big-data/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Bjorkbat</author><text>Yeah, as a former farmer I&#x27;m a little bit skeptical. Last I checked the vast majority of farms out there aren&#x27;t large operations, but incredibly small family-owned &quot;hobby farms&quot; or market gardens (what most of us would identify as a small vegetable farm).<p>Having known many farmers over the years, I can only think of one who would really have a use for this. The rest would probably just dismiss it without much thought.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wooster</author><text>This number (&quot;one in three&quot;) is really ambiguous[0], as I haven&#x27;t seen them state what they consider a farm to be. It could be the Ag Census data (~2.2 million farms), or along some subset (say non-family farms at ~90 thousand), or some farm type (I believe I&#x27;ve previously seen them say &quot;row crop farms&quot;).<p>I&#x27;m sure it seems like an impressive stat to throw out there, but it&#x27;s a lot like saying they&#x27;re offering a million shares of options to new employees; without the total number of shares we don&#x27;t know what that means.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epa.gov&#x2F;agriculture&#x2F;ag101&#x2F;demographics.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epa.gov&#x2F;agriculture&#x2F;ag101&#x2F;demographics.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One in Three Farms Is Using FarmLogs</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/22/one-in-three-farms-are-using-farmlogs-to-power-their-yields-with-big-data/</url></story> |
39,624,103 | 39,623,256 | 1 | 2 | 39,618,433 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CrazyStat</author><text>&gt; i loved when they changed the scores so that your result from 10 years prior suddenly become a lower result so people had to know when you took the test to properly weight the result.<p>I took the GRE just before they switched from scoring out of 800 on each section to scoring out of 180. After the switch they kindly mailed me “converted” scores on the new 180 scale, which turned my perfect math score—I hadn’t missed a single question—into a 178. I was not amused.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m shocked at how laissez-faire we&#x27;ve gotten for college entrance exams,<p>to the point that they stopped requiring SAT altogether, but are starting to bring it back. there&#x27;s a lot of things they&#x27;ve done is head scratching. i <i>loved</i> when they changed the scores so that your result from 10 years prior suddenly become a lower result so people had to know <i>when</i> you took the test to properly weight the result.<p>The laissez-faire attitude to drivers licensing when they stopped requiring road tests for new drivers was bonkers as well to me.</text></item><item><author>icyfox</author><text>When I took the GRE in 2017, everything was digital as well. But I couldn&#x27;t believe how locked down the experience was. The testing center in downtown SF had no windows, a metal detector, and you had to check all food outside of the testing room. Just in case you were going to try to cheat off of your banana. I think each computer was also recording a video of you taking the test although I might be mistaken here. Certainly there were cameras set up all around the perimeter.<p>I&#x27;m shocked at how laissez-faire we&#x27;ve gotten for college entrance exams, which I&#x27;d arguably say are much more important at getting you _into_ the graduate programs than the actual graduate program exams are themselves.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. students will take the SAT online</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2024/03/05/1235891530/sat-online-digital-test-college</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwitaway222</author><text>They stopped requiring road tests? Man, seems like that would cause a bunch of cybertrucks to drive into hotels or something.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m shocked at how laissez-faire we&#x27;ve gotten for college entrance exams,<p>to the point that they stopped requiring SAT altogether, but are starting to bring it back. there&#x27;s a lot of things they&#x27;ve done is head scratching. i <i>loved</i> when they changed the scores so that your result from 10 years prior suddenly become a lower result so people had to know <i>when</i> you took the test to properly weight the result.<p>The laissez-faire attitude to drivers licensing when they stopped requiring road tests for new drivers was bonkers as well to me.</text></item><item><author>icyfox</author><text>When I took the GRE in 2017, everything was digital as well. But I couldn&#x27;t believe how locked down the experience was. The testing center in downtown SF had no windows, a metal detector, and you had to check all food outside of the testing room. Just in case you were going to try to cheat off of your banana. I think each computer was also recording a video of you taking the test although I might be mistaken here. Certainly there were cameras set up all around the perimeter.<p>I&#x27;m shocked at how laissez-faire we&#x27;ve gotten for college entrance exams, which I&#x27;d arguably say are much more important at getting you _into_ the graduate programs than the actual graduate program exams are themselves.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. students will take the SAT online</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2024/03/05/1235891530/sat-online-digital-test-college</url></story> |
32,234,300 | 32,234,053 | 1 | 2 | 32,233,437 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>asicsp</author><text>&gt;<i>I&#x27;ve been wrecking my brain how to make $10 on anything online</i><p>If you are really serious about $10 (and not some other larger number), here are some tips:<p>* Pick a topic you know really well (programming, cooking, sea diving, whatever)<p>* Make an infographic (get started on the topic of your choice, some specific and useful practical tip, etc) - picking a template from free tier Canva will go a long way in producing a good looking graphical post (you can even do animations)<p>* Put this up under pay-what-you-want model on sites like Gumroad (so, minimum price free but users can pay if they wish) - see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathspp.gumroad.com&#x2F;l&#x2F;cheatsheet_list_comps_101" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathspp.gumroad.com&#x2F;l&#x2F;cheatsheet_list_comps_101</a> for an example<p>* Post a sample on sites like Twitter, Reddit, etc (just the nice looking graphic, add a link to Gumroad later in comments if the posts start getting attention)<p>* Make a video to show demos (if applicable)<p>* Be consistent! Give it your best shot for topics you are really confident about. Listen to feedback. Learn and Build in Public for better reach (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swyx.io&#x2F;learn-in-public" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swyx.io&#x2F;learn-in-public</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chriscoyier.net&#x2F;2012&#x2F;09&#x2F;23&#x2F;working-in-public&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chriscoyier.net&#x2F;2012&#x2F;09&#x2F;23&#x2F;working-in-public&#x2F;</a>)<p>If you want an example for someone making a living by doing things like this, check out Julia&#x27;s <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wizardzines.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wizardzines.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sakopov</author><text>I&#x27;ve been wrecking my brain how to make $10 on anything online for a good part of the past 10 years with a couple of failed startups and even more side projects that went nowhere. I envy anyone who can do this and I think it is truly an immeasurable amount of effort to make any kind of side income let alone something that replaces your salary. But I think articles like this one advertise it like it&#x27;s something you can do in your sleep and that&#x27;s just not how it works.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Becoming a Full-Time Creator as a Software Engineer</title><url>https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/how-to-become-a-full-time-creator/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>josephg</author><text>It’s also a lot of luck. A friend of a friend made some trashy weekend website in php years ago which calculates profits from options trades. He somehow makes 6 figures from advertising on the site.<p>Apparently he tried doing a big rewrite a couple years ago to fix the UX and whatnot, but his income dropped to 1&#x2F;3rd of what it was after the change. Probably people spent less time on the site. So he put it back how it was.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sakopov</author><text>I&#x27;ve been wrecking my brain how to make $10 on anything online for a good part of the past 10 years with a couple of failed startups and even more side projects that went nowhere. I envy anyone who can do this and I think it is truly an immeasurable amount of effort to make any kind of side income let alone something that replaces your salary. But I think articles like this one advertise it like it&#x27;s something you can do in your sleep and that&#x27;s just not how it works.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Becoming a Full-Time Creator as a Software Engineer</title><url>https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/how-to-become-a-full-time-creator/</url></story> |
35,390,820 | 35,390,958 | 1 | 2 | 35,389,915 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kypro</author><text>It makes more sense when you consider that the market has never believed long-term inflation was a serious issue because frankly the narrative around structurally higher inflation has never made much sense given demographics, technology and debt levels. For the most part where the uncertainty has existed has been in the path of the Fed.<p>For the last several months (since Jackson Hole) markets haven&#x27;t been sure how quickly inflation would come down and therefore how high the Fed might risk taking rates. But today we have much more certainty. We now know the Fed really can&#x27;t raise rates much more near-term given the risks and longer-term the stimulus and supply bottlenecks which created the majority of the inflationary pressures will ease.<p>Another thing you need to remember is that inflation easing is actually deflationary because real yields are calculated by nominal yields minus inflation. So as inflation comes down you&#x27;re actually getting paid more to lock your cash up in bonds which continues to tighten financial conditions.<p>The risk of a larger financial crisis is very low given this isn&#x27;t a credit event, but a duration event. As long as the Fed doesn&#x27;t raise rates further we can rule out a financial crisis and so long as you don&#x27;t believe there is a structural inflationary problem in the economy rates should trend downwards over the coming months.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>Also of note: this decline only continues as long as the Fed actually cuts rates. If they don&#x27;t, these long-term bond yields make no sense (why would you lend money for 10 years at 3.5% when you can lend money for 3650 successive 1-day terms at 4.75%?)<p>The logic behind this seems a bit circular to me. Market participants accept lower long-term bond rates because they expect the Fed to cut rates in the future. They expect the Fed to cut rates because if they don&#x27;t, there will be a financial crisis. There will be a financial crisis because long-term bond rates are high and banks are underwater on their bonds, except that bond rates are declining because the Fed is going to cut rates, because...uh, why is there going to be a financial crisis again? What reason does the Fed have for dropping rates? It&#x27;s very much an &quot;appeal to consequences&quot; fallacy - some bad outcome is not going to happen because that would be bad. The world doesn&#x27;t work that way.<p>IMHO the market is wrong, and the Fed is not going to cut rates. They&#x27;ve gotten too accustomed to being bailed out, and the Fed is on to them, and so they&#x27;re not going to do that again, at least not in the form that the market expects.</text></item><item><author>arbuge</author><text>Of note: those losses are actually coming down as we speak.<p>With the Fed now expected by the bond market to pause rate hikes and start cutting rates soon, long term bond yields (as well as shorter term ones) have been coming down, increasing the value of those holdings.<p>You may have noticed this decline if you were shopping for CDs over the last few weeks. On brokerage platforms, top rates for 1 year CDs have gone down from a high of around 5.4% to 5% now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US banks have $620B of unrealized losses on their books</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-svb-exposed-risks-banks/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>prottog</author><text>&gt; (why would you lend money for 10 years at 3.5% when you can lend money for 3650 successive 1-day terms at 4.75%?)<p>That&#x27;s the thing, you can&#x27;t know that. Rates could go up, down, sideways, or in circles over the next 10 years. A 10-year bond locks it in to a predictable rate and payment schedule.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>Also of note: this decline only continues as long as the Fed actually cuts rates. If they don&#x27;t, these long-term bond yields make no sense (why would you lend money for 10 years at 3.5% when you can lend money for 3650 successive 1-day terms at 4.75%?)<p>The logic behind this seems a bit circular to me. Market participants accept lower long-term bond rates because they expect the Fed to cut rates in the future. They expect the Fed to cut rates because if they don&#x27;t, there will be a financial crisis. There will be a financial crisis because long-term bond rates are high and banks are underwater on their bonds, except that bond rates are declining because the Fed is going to cut rates, because...uh, why is there going to be a financial crisis again? What reason does the Fed have for dropping rates? It&#x27;s very much an &quot;appeal to consequences&quot; fallacy - some bad outcome is not going to happen because that would be bad. The world doesn&#x27;t work that way.<p>IMHO the market is wrong, and the Fed is not going to cut rates. They&#x27;ve gotten too accustomed to being bailed out, and the Fed is on to them, and so they&#x27;re not going to do that again, at least not in the form that the market expects.</text></item><item><author>arbuge</author><text>Of note: those losses are actually coming down as we speak.<p>With the Fed now expected by the bond market to pause rate hikes and start cutting rates soon, long term bond yields (as well as shorter term ones) have been coming down, increasing the value of those holdings.<p>You may have noticed this decline if you were shopping for CDs over the last few weeks. On brokerage platforms, top rates for 1 year CDs have gone down from a high of around 5.4% to 5% now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US banks have $620B of unrealized losses on their books</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-svb-exposed-risks-banks/</url></story> |
28,866,351 | 28,866,516 | 1 | 2 | 28,863,997 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>akudha</author><text>I too have no car, zero commute, maybe take one flight every other year etc. I still think we should stabilize human population. I don&#x27;t know what is the maximum number of humans mother earth can support without completely fucking up the planet, but I don&#x27;t want to find out. Do you?<p>I don&#x27;t have kids and don&#x27;t plan to have. Nobody is forcing me not to have kids, in fact the opposite. I am the black sheep of my family and social circle, people look at me weird for not having kids (not that I care).<p>The problem with asking people to live responsibly is that it hasn&#x27;t worked so far. Ever tried asking a meat eater to reduce a <i>tiny</i> bit of their meat consumption? Another issue is that even if it worked, it will take a long time for people to change their habits. We should of course educate people about responsible living, but we should also remember that it is a long, hard process.<p>I don&#x27;t know what the solution is, but we are at a point that we should try <i>everything</i> we can think of, including asking people to have less kids, live responsibly etc etc</text><parent_chain><item><author>rcMgD2BwE72F</author><text>&gt;People keep saying we can feed 10 billion people. We can. But at what cost to the diversity of biological systems?
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&gt;It’s not popular to say but we need to stabilize population growth and stop encroaching on natural habitats and put a brake on consumerism.<p>This is not popular because it assumes that everyone has an excessive footprint. I&#x27;m vegetarian, I get most of my food from a local, organic farm. My footprint is minimal (no car, zero commute, no flight, etc). We could be billions more if we chose to live this way. Why ask&#x2F;force people not to have a family where we could have happy family living responsibly? Asking others to die &#x2F; not reproduce is a great way not to challenge our way of life.<p>For some reasons, all the people I know who campaign for population stabilization&#x2F;reduction are among those with the worst footprint.</text></item><item><author>mc32</author><text>People keep saying we can feed 10 billion people. We can. But at what cost to the diversity of biological systems?<p>It’s not popular to say but we need to stabilize population growth and stop encroaching on natural habitats and put a brake on consumerism.<p>The developed world has in many parts allowed previously used areas to revert to a natural state. However in high pop growth countries the opposite is happening as both thd developed world and developing world both need as well as demand more resource extraction. We&#x27;re depleting ocean fisheries, contributing to soil erosion, having water shortages, etc.<p>Stabilize populations to 1960s or whatever, but we need to do the same as we’re doing for pollution set a benchmark and aim for it. Get those people educated, provide them with prophylactics and get them out of a pop explosion curve and get to ZPG like Italy and Japan (US as well if we didn’t import pop growth).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Countries are gathering in an effort to stop a biodiversity collapse</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/climate/un-biodiversity-conference-climate-change.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chuckee</author><text>&gt; Why ask&#x2F;force people not to have a family where we could have happy family living responsibly?<p>I&#x27;m sorry, but you <i>know</i> that people can still have families (up to 2.1 children&#x2F;woman on average) while staying below the replacement reproduction rate (so resulting in population reduction). So why pretend that they&#x27;re being asked to give up families entirely?</text><parent_chain><item><author>rcMgD2BwE72F</author><text>&gt;People keep saying we can feed 10 billion people. We can. But at what cost to the diversity of biological systems?
&gt;
&gt;It’s not popular to say but we need to stabilize population growth and stop encroaching on natural habitats and put a brake on consumerism.<p>This is not popular because it assumes that everyone has an excessive footprint. I&#x27;m vegetarian, I get most of my food from a local, organic farm. My footprint is minimal (no car, zero commute, no flight, etc). We could be billions more if we chose to live this way. Why ask&#x2F;force people not to have a family where we could have happy family living responsibly? Asking others to die &#x2F; not reproduce is a great way not to challenge our way of life.<p>For some reasons, all the people I know who campaign for population stabilization&#x2F;reduction are among those with the worst footprint.</text></item><item><author>mc32</author><text>People keep saying we can feed 10 billion people. We can. But at what cost to the diversity of biological systems?<p>It’s not popular to say but we need to stabilize population growth and stop encroaching on natural habitats and put a brake on consumerism.<p>The developed world has in many parts allowed previously used areas to revert to a natural state. However in high pop growth countries the opposite is happening as both thd developed world and developing world both need as well as demand more resource extraction. We&#x27;re depleting ocean fisheries, contributing to soil erosion, having water shortages, etc.<p>Stabilize populations to 1960s or whatever, but we need to do the same as we’re doing for pollution set a benchmark and aim for it. Get those people educated, provide them with prophylactics and get them out of a pop explosion curve and get to ZPG like Italy and Japan (US as well if we didn’t import pop growth).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Countries are gathering in an effort to stop a biodiversity collapse</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/climate/un-biodiversity-conference-climate-change.html</url></story> |
12,922,009 | 12,920,924 | 1 | 2 | 12,917,924 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>usmeteora</author><text>Seriously, the amount of helicopter parenting in this country is ridiculous. 21 year old men at my top ranked engineering school had their mothers checking their school emails for homework (I&#x27;m not making this up).<p>Another story: kid OD on drugs, his mom flew across the country to be by his bedside and paid the school from getting suspended<p>Another Story: child is depressed because he got a low first exam grade os his parents sent him to Europe to a GPA booster school for a semester to &quot;cheer him up&quot;<p>These kids are ridiculous their parents coddle them through everything and clap joyously and the slightest acheivement which they totally positioned them for.<p>They are depressed and completely incapable of navigating the real world. I had to break up with the one I dated because he wanted me to be his mom. Like no kid, I have a life to live do your own laundry and no I&#x27;m not going to redo your resume for you and get you a job.<p>This has GOT to stop. Below is an article from the Former Dean of Stanford on just this very topic: It&#x27;s embarassing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;education&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;16&#x2F;former-stanford-dean-explains-why-helicopter-parenting-is-ruining-a-generation-of-children&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;education&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;16&#x2F;...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jernfrost</author><text>This isn&#x27;t so much the Japanese being weird and different as the American&#x27;s being the odd ones.<p>I am Norwegian, and little of these descriptions would seem odd to me. My kids go on trips every week with their pre-school, and I have never keep track of where.<p>My oldest son has walked to school himself since he has been 6 years old. I walked to school when I was a kid from 7 (we started school later). And I had to walk about 30 minutes to get to school crossing many roads.<p>From early childhood I roamed around all my neighborhood walking into forests or as I got a bit older I&#x27;d go with friends to big abandoned ship yards.<p>When I later emailed a distant American relative of similar age, I was confused when she didn&#x27;t understand why I didn&#x27;t have a drivers license. She was like &quot;doesn&#x27;t your parent&#x27;s get tired of driving you everywhere?&quot;. A question that made no sense to me until I visited the US. I was of course going everywhere and I didn&#x27;t need parents or a car to do that. I could take the train, bus or subway myself or bike.<p>In America however it is simply sad how dependent children are on their parents. Parents take them to every sort of activity and thing they got to do. In so many American cities you can&#x27;t have a life without a car. There is nothing to do without a car.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Japan Prepares Its Children for Independence</title><url>http://savvytokyo.com/japan-prepares-children-independence/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zdragnar</author><text>As a lifelong resident of a midwestern state in the US, I think it&#x27;s less a matter of independence and more a matter of safety and legal issues. I too made plenty of solo excursions through our rural countryside at a young age.<p>On the other hand, in major cities, parents are being charged with neglect if their young children walk a a few blocks up the street to go to a park. Not everywhere, but such stories crop up in the news every so often.<p>Another part of the problem is that communities in America aren&#x27;t (or seem to not be) quite as tight knit as they once were. There are plenty of explanations, from cultural shifts, family policy, excessively punitive drug policy, economic policy, decline of religion, decline of moral values, rise of the internet and easy access to excessive amounts of televised programming, cell phones and handheld video games, you name it, and someone has probably blamed something for it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jernfrost</author><text>This isn&#x27;t so much the Japanese being weird and different as the American&#x27;s being the odd ones.<p>I am Norwegian, and little of these descriptions would seem odd to me. My kids go on trips every week with their pre-school, and I have never keep track of where.<p>My oldest son has walked to school himself since he has been 6 years old. I walked to school when I was a kid from 7 (we started school later). And I had to walk about 30 minutes to get to school crossing many roads.<p>From early childhood I roamed around all my neighborhood walking into forests or as I got a bit older I&#x27;d go with friends to big abandoned ship yards.<p>When I later emailed a distant American relative of similar age, I was confused when she didn&#x27;t understand why I didn&#x27;t have a drivers license. She was like &quot;doesn&#x27;t your parent&#x27;s get tired of driving you everywhere?&quot;. A question that made no sense to me until I visited the US. I was of course going everywhere and I didn&#x27;t need parents or a car to do that. I could take the train, bus or subway myself or bike.<p>In America however it is simply sad how dependent children are on their parents. Parents take them to every sort of activity and thing they got to do. In so many American cities you can&#x27;t have a life without a car. There is nothing to do without a car.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Japan Prepares Its Children for Independence</title><url>http://savvytokyo.com/japan-prepares-children-independence/</url></story> |
6,733,844 | 6,733,376 | 1 | 2 | 6,732,889 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amix</author><text>This is really awesome! Congrats to the team!<p>We have a ton of JavaScript&#x2F;CoffeeScript code and I really wish we could use something like Dart. JavaScript is great for smaller projects, but once you get a ton of code it really becomes a unmanageable mess.<p>I think tho&#x27; it would be amazing if Dart could run on the server side as well. This way you could just have one language on both the client and the server.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dart 1.0 Is Out</title><url>http://news.dartlang.org/2013/11/dart-10-stable-sdk-for-structured-web.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikehotel</author><text><i>Going forward, the Dart team will focus on improving Dartium, increasing Dart performance, and ensuring the platform remains rock solid. In particular, changes to core technologies will be backward-compatible for the foreseeable future.</i><p><i>Today’s release marks the first time Dart is officially production-ready, and we’re seeing teams like Blossom, Montage, Soundtrap, Mandrill, Google&#x27;s internal CRM app and Google Elections, already successfully using Dart in production. In addition, companies like Adobe, drone.io, and JetBrains have started to add Dart support to their products.</i><p>Congrats to the team on releasing 1. Now to find a project to try it out in...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dart 1.0 Is Out</title><url>http://news.dartlang.org/2013/11/dart-10-stable-sdk-for-structured-web.html</url></story> |
18,063,891 | 18,063,939 | 1 | 3 | 18,062,963 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spike021</author><text>&gt;Instagram today is completely different from the way it started. The app is different, the community is completely different. Literally nothing is the same. It doesn’t even resemble what it once was. It has completely devolved.<p>&gt;IG now is a platform of the least common denominator. 90% of the posts are garbage spam that takes the form of meme&#x2F;image mace hybrid abominations designed to get likes.<p>I guess you aren&#x27;t following the right people or accounts, then.<p>I&#x27;ve seen plenty of engaging and cool content. I&#x27;ve even become friends with people from the opposite side of the world. Basically a modern kind of pen pal.<p>And this all happens while I&#x27;m still able to share photos in the moment.<p>The only thing about IG I absolutely hate is the non-chronological feed. It&#x27;s ridiculously terrible, even reloading before I&#x27;ve seen the most recent posts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>themagician</author><text>lolwut?<p>Instagram today is completely different from the way it started. The app is different, the community is completely different. Literally nothing is the same. It doesn’t even resemble what it once was. It has completely devolved. It may very well be the most toxic property out there. It’s hard to imagine something more phony, optimized soley as a way to waste your time tapping away giving “likes”. Watching somone use Instagram is one of the most depressing things I can imagine in terms of human social interaction.<p>IG was an app designed to share photos in the moment. It was a digital Polaroid. That was a pretty cool idea. That core feature is essentially gone and so is the community around it.<p>IG now is a platform of the least common denominator. 90% of the posts are garbage spam that takes the form of meme&#x2F;image macro hybrid abominations designed to get likes. I don’t even really know what you call them. They aren’t videos, or flops or even memes. The best phrase I can think of is digital media noise. IG is like some kind of weird digital static. If you wanted to broadcast incompressible nonsense into outspace the best way to do it would be broadcast the explore tab on IG.</text></item><item><author>newscracker</author><text>Well, there&#x27;s more than a 50% probability that they&#x27;re leaving because of conflicts with Facebook, the privacy issues and the push to add more and more ads everywhere. If this were the case, I hope they&#x27;d speak up sooner than later. We need voices from within FB and its acquisitions to tell everyone how messed up things are behind the scenes.<p>But you have to give credit to how the company started and how it&#x27;s been running all these years. Instagram is still flourishing (and grew in the face of competition from Snapchat, even by copying its features and making it better) and seems like a nicer group of communities with a lot less of the nastiness that&#x27;s seen on Facebook (I don&#x27;t have much first hand experience, but do see some feeds on the web). That&#x27;s not easy to cultivate, and for reasons I haven&#x27;t read about or examined, the Instagram users have self-selected such a group to be in.*<p>Here&#x27;s hoping the founders start something new and fresh, far from privacy invasive platforms.<p>*: I&#x27;d be interested in any writings about how these communities developed to be what they are.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/technology/instagram-cofounders-resign.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matthewmacleod</author><text>I admit I’m surprised to hear that.<p>I don’t use Instagram that often. Sometimes I pop on to see pictures of friends’ kids, holidays, parties, or events. That’s basically 90% of what I see. I post holiday pictures and interesting things I cook, because some other people like to see them. Sometimes there are ads in my feed, and for the most part they’re inoffensive products that I even sometimes look at!<p>It’s just kind of the least offensive form of social media I can think of. I’m surprised to hear that so many people hate it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>themagician</author><text>lolwut?<p>Instagram today is completely different from the way it started. The app is different, the community is completely different. Literally nothing is the same. It doesn’t even resemble what it once was. It has completely devolved. It may very well be the most toxic property out there. It’s hard to imagine something more phony, optimized soley as a way to waste your time tapping away giving “likes”. Watching somone use Instagram is one of the most depressing things I can imagine in terms of human social interaction.<p>IG was an app designed to share photos in the moment. It was a digital Polaroid. That was a pretty cool idea. That core feature is essentially gone and so is the community around it.<p>IG now is a platform of the least common denominator. 90% of the posts are garbage spam that takes the form of meme&#x2F;image macro hybrid abominations designed to get likes. I don’t even really know what you call them. They aren’t videos, or flops or even memes. The best phrase I can think of is digital media noise. IG is like some kind of weird digital static. If you wanted to broadcast incompressible nonsense into outspace the best way to do it would be broadcast the explore tab on IG.</text></item><item><author>newscracker</author><text>Well, there&#x27;s more than a 50% probability that they&#x27;re leaving because of conflicts with Facebook, the privacy issues and the push to add more and more ads everywhere. If this were the case, I hope they&#x27;d speak up sooner than later. We need voices from within FB and its acquisitions to tell everyone how messed up things are behind the scenes.<p>But you have to give credit to how the company started and how it&#x27;s been running all these years. Instagram is still flourishing (and grew in the face of competition from Snapchat, even by copying its features and making it better) and seems like a nicer group of communities with a lot less of the nastiness that&#x27;s seen on Facebook (I don&#x27;t have much first hand experience, but do see some feeds on the web). That&#x27;s not easy to cultivate, and for reasons I haven&#x27;t read about or examined, the Instagram users have self-selected such a group to be in.*<p>Here&#x27;s hoping the founders start something new and fresh, far from privacy invasive platforms.<p>*: I&#x27;d be interested in any writings about how these communities developed to be what they are.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/technology/instagram-cofounders-resign.html</url></story> |
13,018,462 | 13,017,633 | 1 | 3 | 13,016,708 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>This is a case where knowing the data and it&#x27;s <i>inherent structure</i> is just as important, if not more important, then knowing how to apply machine learning.<p>In this case, the formula was (time ~ content length + number of tags). Except, by construction, the content length is <i>positively correlated</i> with the number of tags! And since the parsing tags is the primary purpose of HTML scrapers, it&#x27;s likely that content length is completely redundant or a poor predictor of time. (which was the conclusion). If you wanted to calculate the maginitude&#x2F;significance of an explanatory variable, a linear regression is more than sufficient, and R has great tools for that.<p>The quantile plot revealed there is a skew in time processed, presumably the number of tags has a similar skew.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Machine Learning for Everyday Tasks</title><url>http://blog.mailgun.com/machine-learning-for-everyday-tasks/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nacc</author><text>I might have missed something, but if they only have 2 features, simply plotting the data out will make any trend very clear.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Machine Learning for Everyday Tasks</title><url>http://blog.mailgun.com/machine-learning-for-everyday-tasks/</url></story> |
4,280,919 | 4,280,756 | 1 | 2 | 4,280,692 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Uchikoma</author><text>Redis has been working here on a high traffic site without any trouble for more than a year. Excellent software. The only software I might think that's bug free, due to the attitude of @antirez.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Redis Sentinel beta released</title><url>http://antirez.com/post/redis-sentinel-beta-released.html</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spenrose</author><text>Hey Antirez, the link to hires in the announcement is broken. Replace "anirez" with "antirez".</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Redis Sentinel beta released</title><url>http://antirez.com/post/redis-sentinel-beta-released.html</url><text></text></story> |
29,114,381 | 29,114,459 | 1 | 2 | 29,113,216 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yoyohello13</author><text>Definitely agree about the enjoyable part. I don’t necessarily think vim has made me more efficient than normal keyboard+mouse, but I definitely find text editing a lot more enjoyable. It makes a really big difference in my state of mind during the day.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChicagoBoy11</author><text>I have to be honest, seeing some content on YouTube and noticing some folks presumably putting things on the screen in the same speed as they were thinking is what got me into it.<p>I&#x27;ve had a TREMENDOUSLY DIFFICULT time getting fully up and running with it in terms of workflow, but the text navigation alone has absolutely made me code not necessarily faster, but in a MUCH more enjoyable way. After a while it became difficult to imagine navigating a piece of code without some of VIM&#x27;s core ideas, even if in my case it is down to mostly the feature-set related to easily navigating a file.<p>Alas, for me then the VScode-Vim extension is doing the trick, but since you mentioned the learning wall, curious if you know any resources or can suggest a path to move past it nowadays.</text></item><item><author>eh9</author><text>I know it’s silly, but Vim is single-handedly responsible for people thinking I “code fast” in interviews. I always chuckle when someone notes how fast I can manipulate code and I think about the learning-wall I hit when first picking up Vim.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Happy birthday Vim (2020)</title><url>https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/bQtQSHTK1sg</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dharmab</author><text>For me it was a combination of:<p>- Reading through vimtutor<p>- Disabling my arrow key bindings and unplugging my mouse for a week (as part of a combined vim&#x2F;i3&#x2F;vimiuim learning experience&#x2F;experiment)<p>- Playing Vim Adventures, a puzzle game based on Vim&#x27;s controls<p>The three days of godawful productivity has paid off a thousandfold- especially when I later became temporarily disabled (broken bones in both arms) and couldn&#x27;t use a mouse for a while.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChicagoBoy11</author><text>I have to be honest, seeing some content on YouTube and noticing some folks presumably putting things on the screen in the same speed as they were thinking is what got me into it.<p>I&#x27;ve had a TREMENDOUSLY DIFFICULT time getting fully up and running with it in terms of workflow, but the text navigation alone has absolutely made me code not necessarily faster, but in a MUCH more enjoyable way. After a while it became difficult to imagine navigating a piece of code without some of VIM&#x27;s core ideas, even if in my case it is down to mostly the feature-set related to easily navigating a file.<p>Alas, for me then the VScode-Vim extension is doing the trick, but since you mentioned the learning wall, curious if you know any resources or can suggest a path to move past it nowadays.</text></item><item><author>eh9</author><text>I know it’s silly, but Vim is single-handedly responsible for people thinking I “code fast” in interviews. I always chuckle when someone notes how fast I can manipulate code and I think about the learning-wall I hit when first picking up Vim.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Happy birthday Vim (2020)</title><url>https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/bQtQSHTK1sg</url></story> |
35,776,643 | 35,775,785 | 1 | 3 | 35,771,104 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JeremyNT</author><text>This quote is the first thing I&#x27;ve seen that really makes me worried.<p>I don&#x27;t think of ChatGPT as being &quot;smart&quot; at all, and comparing it to a human seems nonsensical to me. Yet here is a Turing award winning preeminent expert in the field telling me that AI smarter than humans is less (implied: <i>much</i> less) than 30 years away and quitting his job due to the ramifications.</text><parent_chain><item><author>neatze</author><text>“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that,” said Hinton to the NYT. “But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that.”<p>Calculators are smarter then humans in calculating, what does he mean by that?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mitthrowaway2</author><text>&gt; Calculators are smarter then humans in calculating, what does he mean by that?<p>My understanding of what he means by that is a computer that is smarter than humans in <i>everything, or nearly everything</i>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>neatze</author><text>“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that,” said Hinton to the NYT. “But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that.”<p>Calculators are smarter then humans in calculating, what does he mean by that?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html</url></story> |
35,693,055 | 35,693,171 | 1 | 2 | 35,691,771 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>giobox</author><text>And this should be the first question almost anyone asks themselves in a discussion about an anti-trust&#x2F;monopoly case - defining &quot;the market&quot; is the lynchpin upon which much of antitrust law works both in Europe and the United States.<p>Also be wary of comments in this thread that don&#x27;t weigh this most important element of the entire process well.<p>All too often these discussions on anti-trust issues become meaningless on this site because everyone involved is using a personal definition for &quot;the marketplace&quot;.<p>Step one of any attempt to claim Apple holds a monopoly will require you to define exactly what the market is, in quite specific terms, and have the court agree. That didn&#x27;t happen for Epic here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>GeekyBear</author><text>&gt; How can the app store promote competition when it is a monopoly on iOS?<p>The court did not decide that the relevant market was iOS only, as Epic wanted.<p>&gt; A threshold issue in any antitrust case is defining the “relevant market.” Here, Epic argued that the relevant market is Apple’s iOS system. Apple argued that the relevant market is the market for all digital video games, where it is one of many players. The court disagreed with both sides, and it instead defined the relevant market as “digital mobile gaming transactions.” Under this formulation, the court found that Apple has a 52–57% market share in the “digital mobile gaming transactions” market. But this was not enough for the court to conclude Apple has monopoly power.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.klgates.com&#x2F;Court-Issues-Mixed-Ruling-in-Epic-v-Apple-Antitrust-Trial-10-6-2021" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.klgates.com&#x2F;Court-Issues-Mixed-Ruling-in-Epic-v-...</a><p>This article is about Epic losing their appeal of the lower court&#x27;s rulings.</text></item><item><author>nu11ptr</author><text>&gt; The App Store continues to promote competition, drive innovation, and expand opportunity, and we’re proud of its profound contributions to both users and developers around the world.<p>How can the app store promote competition when it is a monopoly on iOS? (I suppose they could be talking between different apps, but that isn&#x27;t what this case was about)<p>UPDATE: The comments seem to imply I am giving my opinion on this case. I am not. I am commenting on the PR-speak given here. The app store does not, IMO, &quot;promote&quot; competition...it may arguably not hinder it, but given what the case is about, it is, I think, more competitive if others could use different methods of selling apps on iOS. That doesn&#x27;t mean it is better, right, more fair, or anything else... just more &quot;competitive&quot; IMO. In short, I&#x27;m commenting on the wording in their press release only.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games, appeals court rules</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/24/apple-wins-antitrust-court-battle-with-epic-games-appeals-court-rules/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lapcat</author><text>&gt; But this was not enough for the court to conclude Apple has monopoly power.<p>I don&#x27;t understand that. How is a single company controlling more than half of the entire market not monopoly power?</text><parent_chain><item><author>GeekyBear</author><text>&gt; How can the app store promote competition when it is a monopoly on iOS?<p>The court did not decide that the relevant market was iOS only, as Epic wanted.<p>&gt; A threshold issue in any antitrust case is defining the “relevant market.” Here, Epic argued that the relevant market is Apple’s iOS system. Apple argued that the relevant market is the market for all digital video games, where it is one of many players. The court disagreed with both sides, and it instead defined the relevant market as “digital mobile gaming transactions.” Under this formulation, the court found that Apple has a 52–57% market share in the “digital mobile gaming transactions” market. But this was not enough for the court to conclude Apple has monopoly power.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.klgates.com&#x2F;Court-Issues-Mixed-Ruling-in-Epic-v-Apple-Antitrust-Trial-10-6-2021" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.klgates.com&#x2F;Court-Issues-Mixed-Ruling-in-Epic-v-...</a><p>This article is about Epic losing their appeal of the lower court&#x27;s rulings.</text></item><item><author>nu11ptr</author><text>&gt; The App Store continues to promote competition, drive innovation, and expand opportunity, and we’re proud of its profound contributions to both users and developers around the world.<p>How can the app store promote competition when it is a monopoly on iOS? (I suppose they could be talking between different apps, but that isn&#x27;t what this case was about)<p>UPDATE: The comments seem to imply I am giving my opinion on this case. I am not. I am commenting on the PR-speak given here. The app store does not, IMO, &quot;promote&quot; competition...it may arguably not hinder it, but given what the case is about, it is, I think, more competitive if others could use different methods of selling apps on iOS. That doesn&#x27;t mean it is better, right, more fair, or anything else... just more &quot;competitive&quot; IMO. In short, I&#x27;m commenting on the wording in their press release only.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games, appeals court rules</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/24/apple-wins-antitrust-court-battle-with-epic-games-appeals-court-rules/</url></story> |
7,015,766 | 7,015,647 | 1 | 2 | 7,015,502 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>morganherlocker</author><text>There were a lot of things discussed here in the original post of this that were lost in the HN outage. Things that stood out to me from memory&#x2F; links and stuff&#x2F; some of my own thoughts:<p>- OSM does not always show some data. This does not really matter because the vector data is all available, and the openstreetmaps.org basemap is just one rendering of many. A good example of this is mapbox, which is one of the most beautiful basemaps out there.<p>- If you see something wrong, you can just hit the edit button and use the web editor (Id), which is super easy and contains more metadata than any other map app in this category. For example, I used this yesterday to find the type of pavement on a bike route near my house.<p>- Google spends 1 billion + per year on maps. This is likely primarily a) streets and b) data&#x2F;company aquisitions which may not meet quite the same standards as OSM. The fact that OSM editors are obsessed with detail in their local area probably explains a lot.<p>- A map of the world should be something we all own. No company should have a monopoly on how we perceive the world around us, but companies should still be able to commercialize this stuff (like mapbox and others are doing).<p>- One point of contention that came up in the discussion was whether or not OSS can really compete with commercial solutions when there is so much money involved. Counter points to this are that mapping the whole world is something that requires a large networking effect and is not efficient for a company to do.<p>- GIS is one industry that has been seriously plagued by corporate wrangling. From the servers to the analysis apps to the geoprocessing engines to the underlying data; much of the innovation is hindered by companies locking down what they have (often with governmental tacit support, which exacerbates the problem quite a bit).<p>- There are many efforts to combat the monopoly-holder&#x27;s&#x2F;government&#x27;s iron grip on this information and processing ability. Among these efforts that are hot on my radar include:<p>- QGIS: an open source gis desktop application that just saw amazing improvements with a 2.0.<p><a href="http://www.qgis.org/en/site/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qgis.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;site&#x2F;</a><p>- TileMill: an application that allows you to create custom basemaps. This was previously a process that required a expensive software and collection of phds.<p><a href="https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mapbox.com&#x2F;tilemill&#x2F;</a><p>- OSM: open map data that allows for almost infinite possibilities, since it lets you easily correct an error or download data and render it however you want.<p><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=5/51.500/-0.100" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;#map=5&#x2F;51.500&#x2F;-0.100</a><p>- mapschool: A cool intro to GIS which has the potential to displace a lot of the overcomplicated training programs that have an inherent bias towards particular proprietary tools.<p><a href="http://macwright.org/mapschool/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;macwright.org&#x2F;mapschool&#x2F;</a><p>- Leaflet: a js library for client side map rendering. It is without a doubt easier to use than any of the alternatives, and tends to handle mobile better to boot.<p><a href="http://leafletjs.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;leafletjs.com&#x2F;</a><p>- d3: A slick data visualization js lib sort of like jquery for data that can create mind blowing charts and maps.<p><a href="http://d3js.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;d3js.org&#x2F;</a><p>- turf: a node.js library I have been working on (yeah, shameless plug) that aims to create a server side or client side full featured geospatial processing&#x2F;stats engine with an easy to use api. The inspiration was largely taken from GRASS and my main goal was beating the hell out of arcpy on performance (it is orders of magnitude faster on the metrics I cared about when writing it).<p><a href="http://morganherlocker.com/post/turf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;morganherlocker.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;turf</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap</title><url>http://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2014/01/04/why-the-world-needs-openstreetmap/</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>c0nsumer</author><text>I love OpenStreetMap, see it as sort of like Wikipedia for cartographic data, and regularly use it as both a repository and source for data I collect about mountain bike and hiking trails. I then use this to make print maps; part of my work with a local mountain biking advocacy non-profit. In fact, just yesterday while watching a storm blow outside my window I put this one together:<p><a href="http://mmba.org/library/maps/baldmountainnorth/latest.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mmba.org&#x2F;library&#x2F;maps&#x2F;baldmountainnorth&#x2F;latest.pdf</a><p>I don&#x27;t really contribute the data I collect to Google Maps because it&#x27;s much more one-way... Sure, I get to use their mapping site, but I can&#x27;t get the data back for making print maps.<p>If anyone is interested in the general process I follow for it, that can be found here:<p><a href="https://nuxx.net/blog/2012/06/05/mtb-trail-mapping-workflow-with-openstreetmaps/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nuxx.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2012&#x2F;06&#x2F;05&#x2F;mtb-trail-mapping-workflow-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap</title><url>http://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2014/01/04/why-the-world-needs-openstreetmap/</url><text></text></story> |
18,415,001 | 18,415,163 | 1 | 2 | 18,412,027 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajryan</author><text>We use .NET core in production and are very happy. A mixture of EF Core (for ad-hoc queries) and Dapper (for stored procs) works just fine. Also, new in EF Core 2.1, you can map views and stored procs just fine: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;ef&#x2F;core&#x2F;modeling&#x2F;query-types" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;ef&#x2F;core&#x2F;modeling&#x2F;query-type...</a>.<p>That&#x27;s your only specific example - what other functionality are you missing?<p>You&#x27;re not willing to commit to .NET core but you admit that NetFx is going into maintenance mode?</text><parent_chain><item><author>SimonPStevens</author><text>I want to like .Net Core, I really do. But in my opinion its just not yet ready for serious use.<p>An example. If you want to use .Net Core you can&#x27;t use entity framework, you have to use EF Core, which doesn&#x27;t yet support mapping to views or stored procs, only tables.<p>Now you might think that&#x27;s fine, maybe you only want to map to tables. But it&#x27;s the same story all over the ecosystem. Many major projects have a separate netfx and core package, and many times the core package has restricted functionality. You will almost certainly find a whole host of things you need are missing.<p>And then you get the fact that ASP.Net Core is dropping support for .Netfx in the next release, so if you want to use ASP.net Core you are now limited to EF core too, which means you are making a full jump and can&#x27;t just go halfway first. And .netfx is now not going to support .net standard 2.1.<p>The list of incompatibilities and restrictions just goes on and on. I certainly can&#x27;t keep the full list in my head. So right now I&#x27;m not really willing to commit to a new project of any significance on .net core because I know there will be dozens of missing dependencies or features.<p>You could argue this is just want it&#x27;s like at the cutting edge, and the gaps will be filled in time. But .netfx is clearly already going into maintenance mode, so the push to move to .net core has already started.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Makes .NET Core So Special?</title><url>https://www.blog.jamesmichaelhickey.com/What-Makes-NET-Core-So-Special-Why-You-Should-Use-NET-Core/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davedx</author><text>I&#x27;m working on a fairly complex e-commerce platform built on .Net Core, I&#x27;m really happy with it. We use EF core too.<p>It&#x27;s a pretty serious project, and for us, the benefits of our developers being able to natively develop on Macbooks and being able to deploy to Linux containers outweighs missing features.<p>Swings and roundabouts...</text><parent_chain><item><author>SimonPStevens</author><text>I want to like .Net Core, I really do. But in my opinion its just not yet ready for serious use.<p>An example. If you want to use .Net Core you can&#x27;t use entity framework, you have to use EF Core, which doesn&#x27;t yet support mapping to views or stored procs, only tables.<p>Now you might think that&#x27;s fine, maybe you only want to map to tables. But it&#x27;s the same story all over the ecosystem. Many major projects have a separate netfx and core package, and many times the core package has restricted functionality. You will almost certainly find a whole host of things you need are missing.<p>And then you get the fact that ASP.Net Core is dropping support for .Netfx in the next release, so if you want to use ASP.net Core you are now limited to EF core too, which means you are making a full jump and can&#x27;t just go halfway first. And .netfx is now not going to support .net standard 2.1.<p>The list of incompatibilities and restrictions just goes on and on. I certainly can&#x27;t keep the full list in my head. So right now I&#x27;m not really willing to commit to a new project of any significance on .net core because I know there will be dozens of missing dependencies or features.<p>You could argue this is just want it&#x27;s like at the cutting edge, and the gaps will be filled in time. But .netfx is clearly already going into maintenance mode, so the push to move to .net core has already started.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Makes .NET Core So Special?</title><url>https://www.blog.jamesmichaelhickey.com/What-Makes-NET-Core-So-Special-Why-You-Should-Use-NET-Core/</url></story> |
21,135,731 | 21,135,249 | 1 | 2 | 21,114,491 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rwmj</author><text>We actually wrote an optionrom in C for qemu a few years back. The main challenge was making it work on all the different C compilers that qemu supports because it makes some assumptions about the layout of the final binary which are not necessarily true for modern optimizing compilers. Anyhow if ever use qemu on x86 with the -kernel option then you are running this code.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.qemu.org&#x2F;?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=pc-bios&#x2F;optionrom&#x2F;linuxboot_dma.c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.qemu.org&#x2F;?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=pc-bios&#x2F;optionrom&#x2F;...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A simple way to write standalone C programs for i386</title><url>https://github.com/luke8086/boot2c</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>The code was surprisingly short and readable. If you have a minute, I’d suggest taking a peek; it’s pretty well designed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A simple way to write standalone C programs for i386</title><url>https://github.com/luke8086/boot2c</url></story> |
16,623,366 | 16,622,683 | 1 | 2 | 16,620,235 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>s73v3r_</author><text>There are lots of things that you&#x27;re not supposed to be fired for, that people get fired for. Unfortunately, the onus is on the employee, with almost no resources, to prove that the company was lying.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bharris62</author><text>you cannot be fired for being a whistleblower, so if you &#x27;all the sudden&#x27; had performance problems and got fired shortly after whistleblowing, i imagine courts would side with you.</text></item><item><author>s73v3r_</author><text>Considering many of these people end up blacklisted from their industry, we as a society kind of owe it to them.</text></item><item><author>gadders</author><text>Bradley Birkenfeld did quite well whistleblowing on UBS [1]. $104m.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bradley_Birkenfeld#Whistleblowing_and_arrest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bradley_Birkenfeld#Whistleblow...</a></text></item><item><author>refurb</author><text>Whistleblowing can be it&#x27;s own business model, just do a google search for Ven-a-care.<p>Ven-a-care is a small pharmacy down in the Florida Keys. A few decades ago, it started to notice that the price it was paying for certain drug was <i>very</i> different from what the gov&#x27;t thought they cost. Gov&#x27;t price reporting is incredibly strict in pharma due to past mucking with the numbers.<p>So they started a lawsuit which was picked up by the DOJ.<p>Then they did it again, and again, and again.<p>Last I saw, they&#x27;ve racked up almost $600M in whistleblower awards.[1]<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;41491563" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;41491563</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SEC Announces Its Largest-Ever Whistleblower Awards</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-44</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chadash</author><text>Sure, you can&#x27;t be fired easily. But what about when it comes time for a raise or promotion? What about when you are interviewing for your next role? It&#x27;s hard to imagine anyone getting punished for discriminating in these cases, since it&#x27;s always easy to pin it on other things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bharris62</author><text>you cannot be fired for being a whistleblower, so if you &#x27;all the sudden&#x27; had performance problems and got fired shortly after whistleblowing, i imagine courts would side with you.</text></item><item><author>s73v3r_</author><text>Considering many of these people end up blacklisted from their industry, we as a society kind of owe it to them.</text></item><item><author>gadders</author><text>Bradley Birkenfeld did quite well whistleblowing on UBS [1]. $104m.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bradley_Birkenfeld#Whistleblowing_and_arrest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bradley_Birkenfeld#Whistleblow...</a></text></item><item><author>refurb</author><text>Whistleblowing can be it&#x27;s own business model, just do a google search for Ven-a-care.<p>Ven-a-care is a small pharmacy down in the Florida Keys. A few decades ago, it started to notice that the price it was paying for certain drug was <i>very</i> different from what the gov&#x27;t thought they cost. Gov&#x27;t price reporting is incredibly strict in pharma due to past mucking with the numbers.<p>So they started a lawsuit which was picked up by the DOJ.<p>Then they did it again, and again, and again.<p>Last I saw, they&#x27;ve racked up almost $600M in whistleblower awards.[1]<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;41491563" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;41491563</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SEC Announces Its Largest-Ever Whistleblower Awards</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-44</url></story> |
17,554,926 | 17,554,849 | 1 | 2 | 17,551,687 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eganist</author><text>&gt; we see that one of the main limits on Stripe&#x27;s growth is the number of successful startups in the world. [...] If we can cheaply help increase that number, it makes a lot of business sense for us to do so.<p>This approach lends itself to spending on many cheap things which, e.g. in this case, might not even have quantifiable benefits.<p>I&#x27;ll extend OP&#x27;s curiosity and wonder how the team behind Stripe press plans on measuring the success of their initiative, and what milestone hits&#x2F;misses are needed to determine the success or failure state of the project.<p>---<p>Separately, my background includes vendor risk assessments. This is the kind of thing that makes me question long term investment in a platform. It&#x27;s admittedly a lower risk than many technical findings, but it&#x27;s not something to discount when evaluating the use of a startup for critical infrastructure (payment). Knowing Stripe&#x27;s size, the various risks that PCI participants have to account for (and that&#x27;s just PCI DSS specifically), and the trouble many larger organizations <i>and startups</i> have in meeting those obligations also makes me that much more likely to <i>strictly</i> score Stripe on the next vendor risk assessment when I see spend of this sort on ancillary&#x2F;non-critical measures.<p>I&#x27;m sharing how I think because I&#x27;d be surprised if others in my field didn&#x27;t think the same way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pc</author><text>Stripe cofounder here. It&#x27;s a very fair question.<p>&gt; <i>I must admit to being somewhat uncomfortable that Stripe seems to be spreading themselves out into areas outside their core business</i><p>The vast majority of Stripe employees (and there are now more than 1,000) work on our core functionality today. But we see our core <i>business</i> as building tools and infrastructure that help grow the online economy. (&quot;Increase the GDP of the internet.&quot;) When we think about that problem, we see that one of the main limits on Stripe&#x27;s growth is the number of successful startups in the world. If we can cheaply help increase that number, it makes a lot of business sense for us to do so. (And, hopefully, doing so will create a ton of spillover value for others as well.)<p>As we grow, we have to get good at walking and chewing gum -- just as Google or Amazon have. However, while we go and tackle other problems, our aim is not only to continue to improve our core payments infrastructure, but do deliver improvements at an accelerating rate.</text></item><item><author>cyberferret</author><text>As someone whose SaaS uses Stripe for payment processing, I must admit to being somewhat uncomfortable that Stripe seems to be spreading themselves out into areas outside their core business.<p>I read the &quot;22 Immutable Laws of Marketing&quot; many many years ago, and it repeatedly spells out the folly of large companies who became huge on the back of just ONE product then thinking that they needed to have alternatives or provide more choice and broadened their range to the overall long term detriment of the main product or business that made them huge in the first place.<p>EDIT: Just to clarify - it is not just Stripe Press. I am including initiatives like acquiring the Indie Hackers site (which I enjoy BTW) a while back etc. I can totally see that these are all related to Stripe&#x27;s audience of tech startups, but it still has the ring of, say, a candy company who starts diversifying into a clothing line etc.<p>End of the day - every employee who is distracted by looking after the assets &amp; numbers for these side projects is an employee who is not focused on their core payments system.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stripe Press</title><url>https://press.stripe.com/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nojvek</author><text>This is what I like about HN. Feels like a small community where cofounders stepping in to guage feedback.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pc</author><text>Stripe cofounder here. It&#x27;s a very fair question.<p>&gt; <i>I must admit to being somewhat uncomfortable that Stripe seems to be spreading themselves out into areas outside their core business</i><p>The vast majority of Stripe employees (and there are now more than 1,000) work on our core functionality today. But we see our core <i>business</i> as building tools and infrastructure that help grow the online economy. (&quot;Increase the GDP of the internet.&quot;) When we think about that problem, we see that one of the main limits on Stripe&#x27;s growth is the number of successful startups in the world. If we can cheaply help increase that number, it makes a lot of business sense for us to do so. (And, hopefully, doing so will create a ton of spillover value for others as well.)<p>As we grow, we have to get good at walking and chewing gum -- just as Google or Amazon have. However, while we go and tackle other problems, our aim is not only to continue to improve our core payments infrastructure, but do deliver improvements at an accelerating rate.</text></item><item><author>cyberferret</author><text>As someone whose SaaS uses Stripe for payment processing, I must admit to being somewhat uncomfortable that Stripe seems to be spreading themselves out into areas outside their core business.<p>I read the &quot;22 Immutable Laws of Marketing&quot; many many years ago, and it repeatedly spells out the folly of large companies who became huge on the back of just ONE product then thinking that they needed to have alternatives or provide more choice and broadened their range to the overall long term detriment of the main product or business that made them huge in the first place.<p>EDIT: Just to clarify - it is not just Stripe Press. I am including initiatives like acquiring the Indie Hackers site (which I enjoy BTW) a while back etc. I can totally see that these are all related to Stripe&#x27;s audience of tech startups, but it still has the ring of, say, a candy company who starts diversifying into a clothing line etc.<p>End of the day - every employee who is distracted by looking after the assets &amp; numbers for these side projects is an employee who is not focused on their core payments system.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stripe Press</title><url>https://press.stripe.com/</url></story> |
29,191,157 | 29,191,523 | 1 | 3 | 29,188,355 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ethbr0</author><text>&gt; <i>Excel allows non-coders to do many useful things</i><p>I heard a great quip at some point: &quot;Why is Excel the most useful IDE?&quot; Answer: &quot;Because it&#x27;s the one IDE every business allows every user to access.&quot;<p>Most of us here have forgotten that many businesses flat out ban access to programming tools for the majority of users.<p>And what is an enterprising user to do, when they realize they&#x27;re performing the same process 100 times a day?<p>Reach for the only wrench they&#x27;ve been given access to.<p>PS: I guess an analogy would be people griping about shell scripting, without considering that someone might not have the ability to install their framework of choice when connecting into a client server. It gets the job done, with the tools available.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jl6</author><text>This is an imperfect analogy, but consider for a moment the role Microsoft Excel plays.<p>Excel allows non-coders to do many useful things, and provides a relatively gentle on-ramp to actual code via formulas. If you take that on-ramp and keep going, towards VBA and add-ins and other pieces of Microsoft technology, you might wind up becoming a full-time software developer, leaving Excel behind and using “real” tools.<p>Now, there’s a happy path and an unhappy path here.<p>The happy path is that you use Excel for what it’s good at, but recognize when you are operating at its limits, and at that point pivot into “real” software engineering tools.<p>The unhappy path is that you stick with Excel too long and become mired in the world of VBA and advanced formulas and attempts at shared workbooks, and build pseudo-database application-contraptions.<p>No-code can be like that early Excel usage: it can grant some limited but useful powers to non-developers. But no-code can also evolve to become like those contorted, unmaintainable spreadsheet monstrosities that stretch the technology far beyond the point where some “real” software engineering would have been the right answer.<p>Short version: use the right tool for the job.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement?</title><text>Hi HN, maybe it&#x27;s just the bubble I&#x27;m in but these days I see a lot of discussion around &quot;no-code&quot; and the &quot;no-code&quot; movement. There&#x27;s also a bunch of new no-code apps being launched every day - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;topics&#x2F;no-code#order=trending.<p>Some seem to supplement developers (eg: retool) and some empower non-engineers to be able to build websites&#x2F;apps&#x2F;integrations without necessarily having a developer in the loop (eg: shopify&#x2F;zapier&#x2F;airtable).<p>What do you think about this movement? Clearly these apps&#x2F;platforms enable non-developers to solve a bunch of problems which would otherwise need a software engineer. Is this a paradigm shift?</text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jimbokun</author><text>I would go further and say Excel is the ultimate no-code solution. It has been used by more people to solve coding like problems by non-coders than any other no-coding tool.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jl6</author><text>This is an imperfect analogy, but consider for a moment the role Microsoft Excel plays.<p>Excel allows non-coders to do many useful things, and provides a relatively gentle on-ramp to actual code via formulas. If you take that on-ramp and keep going, towards VBA and add-ins and other pieces of Microsoft technology, you might wind up becoming a full-time software developer, leaving Excel behind and using “real” tools.<p>Now, there’s a happy path and an unhappy path here.<p>The happy path is that you use Excel for what it’s good at, but recognize when you are operating at its limits, and at that point pivot into “real” software engineering tools.<p>The unhappy path is that you stick with Excel too long and become mired in the world of VBA and advanced formulas and attempts at shared workbooks, and build pseudo-database application-contraptions.<p>No-code can be like that early Excel usage: it can grant some limited but useful powers to non-developers. But no-code can also evolve to become like those contorted, unmaintainable spreadsheet monstrosities that stretch the technology far beyond the point where some “real” software engineering would have been the right answer.<p>Short version: use the right tool for the job.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement?</title><text>Hi HN, maybe it&#x27;s just the bubble I&#x27;m in but these days I see a lot of discussion around &quot;no-code&quot; and the &quot;no-code&quot; movement. There&#x27;s also a bunch of new no-code apps being launched every day - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;topics&#x2F;no-code#order=trending.<p>Some seem to supplement developers (eg: retool) and some empower non-engineers to be able to build websites&#x2F;apps&#x2F;integrations without necessarily having a developer in the loop (eg: shopify&#x2F;zapier&#x2F;airtable).<p>What do you think about this movement? Clearly these apps&#x2F;platforms enable non-developers to solve a bunch of problems which would otherwise need a software engineer. Is this a paradigm shift?</text></story> |
3,379,113 | 3,379,077 | 1 | 3 | 3,378,658 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zackzackzack</author><text>Whenever I see a post about what to use as a first language I always think about how I learned, and am learning, how to program. Warning: long-ish story/rant ahead.<p>My first class in high school was the basic Java 101. The teacher did not know anything more than how to draw UML diagrams and tell us to use for loops. He had been teaching the class for years and had no industry experience. I imagine 10 years ago he figured out all the questions he was going to ask and learned just enough to explain the really difficult ones. He was not a zen master LISP programmer who had glided down from the plane of Forms to enlighten us.<p>But I started to learn programming because of him. He knew what he knew and he had his presentation down. I didn't know how to program so anything was better than what I was going with. He explained terms and ideas in the most stereotypical of ways. But they made sense. In a way, he passed off his framework of knowledge to those who cared to take it. It was incredibly mind expanding at the time.<p>And so I had this little ball of specific domain knowledge. I wanted to be able to do cool stuff though on my website though. Java wasn't quite there yet, couldn't do all the things I wanted it to do. So I picked up Javascript from W3 schools online. It was terrible, awful Javascript that I have purposefully forgotten. But I could make my pages interactive, I could impress my friends. My little ball of know how was growing and expanding. I kept at it and started seeing how Java "sucked" and why Javascript was the One True Language. New ideas like functions as variables, easy to run scripts, interactive webpages, they all got added on and replaced old less useful ideas from Java.<p>Pretty soon after that I started actively learning Mathematica in college. The whole IDE is just lisp with some mathematical lipstick, but I didn't know that at the time. I started thinking of how to solve problems with lists, how to use IDE's, and reading and writing to files so I wouldn't have to redo everything each time. I had programs that wouldn't run in less than a second which made me really aware of what I was writing and how to optimize things.<p>And the story just keeps going and going on like that. Common lisp with Emacs last winter because of PG. More Mathematica and jQuery during last spring and summer because of an Internship. Node, Haskell, Clojure, Python during this past fall for enlightenment. And now R and, maybe, Ruby/Rails during the winter because I have ideas I want to make happen. I'm by no means a professional, but I know enough to shoot the shit with the CS majors and randomly drop into tech meetups (What up Cinci.rb!)<p>All that sprung from a high school class taught by a standard teacher on a shitty language that I don't ever want to touch again. And so when people talk about first languages and why X will be an absolutely horrible language to use to learn, I zone out. Every language is going to be a horrible first language. All of them. I don't care what arguments you make about js gotchas or Python's batteries included or why scheme is more beautifuller than common. If you don't know how to program, learning how to program is going to suck. Period. Maybe learning C++ first isn't the hottest idea, but at some point you have to grit your teeth and go "Programming is hard."<p>So I applaud Resig's and Khan Academy's use of javascript. Not because I love javascript, but because I know they are going to doing an amazing job presenting the tiny balls of programming knowledge to kids across the world. They could have picked most any mainstream language they want to present these ideas with and I would still be excited by their ideas. All that matters is how they plant the seeds. If they can stir up a kid's desire enough to get over the "ARRAYS SUCK. FOR LOOPS SUCK. WHY WON'T MY PROGRAM COMPILEEEE." and learn the next language or build the next project, then they have done an amazing job and good for the world.<p>tl;dr Programming is hard, every language has it's own use, waffling about the choice of languages isn't going to teach you what you need to know any faster.</text><parent_chain><item><author>absconditus</author><text>Javascript is an absolutely horrible language to use for such purposes. There are far too many gotchas. See the following for numerous examples:<p><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature?tab=votes&#38;page=1" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-languag...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>John Resig: JavaScript as a First Language</title><url>http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-as-a-first-language/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wwweston</author><text>I suspect Mr. Resig is familiar with the potential gotchas, and maybe even has his reasons for still believing it's still worthwhile.<p>For my own part, as someone who regularly taught high school seniors (and other non-programmers) various programming languages (Pascal, Perl, Prolog, JavaScript, and Java) over a good chunk of the 1990s, I have to say that JavaScript worked out pretty well, possibly even the best of the bunch depending on what your goals were.<p>Prolog had some real strengths. The combination of accessibility for some simple applications with the power and conceptual depth of the logic paradigm tended to put more or less smart people with no previous experience on the same footing with those with some experience.<p>But JavaScript seemed to be the best of the bunch in terms of balancing accessibility, speed from which students could get to doing something with everyday practical use, and available depth.<p>And despite the fact that those of us who were teaching were just learning and coming to grips with some of the "bad parts" ourselves (because how many people <i>really</i> knew JavaScript in the 1990s, right?), everybody got stuff done anyway.</text><parent_chain><item><author>absconditus</author><text>Javascript is an absolutely horrible language to use for such purposes. There are far too many gotchas. See the following for numerous examples:<p><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature?tab=votes&#38;page=1" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-languag...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>John Resig: JavaScript as a First Language</title><url>http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-as-a-first-language/</url></story> |
24,518,248 | 24,516,467 | 1 | 3 | 24,509,389 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Wintamute</author><text>Completely false. Weekly new cases per capita is merely a function of number of tests performed by authorities, and furthermore the false positive rate of those tests too. Percent positivity of those tests is a somewhat more accurate indication, but those figures rarely see headlines because they are less sensationalist. For example, UK test positivity rates are less than 1&#x2F;10th what they were at the peak.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AlanSE</author><text>It&#x27;s the same virus no matter where you are in the world. Weekly new cases (per capita) is the best metric for how likely you are to get it when you step outside.</text></item><item><author>rhizome31</author><text>I may be wrong but it seems that the number of confirmed cases isn&#x27;t a great indicator either because we&#x27;ve been testing a lot more so it&#x27;s expected that we&#x27;re getting more positives. What matters is the number of people who die or get seriously ill, isn&#x27;t it?</text></item><item><author>niyaven</author><text>If you look at yesterdays&#x27; stats, Lyon (#1) and Paris (#2) are respectively at 97% and 90% of usual mobility. Yet the number of confirmed cases in France, over the last 15 days, went from 293 024 to 404 888.<p>This index won&#x27;t tell you wether it&#x27;s safe to move around or not, just what people are doing and what authorities are allowing.</text></item><item><author>AJRF</author><text>One interesting coronavirus metric I’ve been tracking is mobility indexes. I know it sounds tin-foil-hat-y but I don’t trust western media coverage on Russia or China and so to gauge the situation in those countries I’ve tried looking at data rather than opinion.<p>The Citymapper app has a “CityMapper Mobility Index” which shows what percentage of a given city is moving compared to a pre-March peg. It’s been interesting to see Moscow and St.Petersburg back to almost 100% capacity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Russian vaccine for Covid-19</title><url>https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30402-1/fulltext</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rossdavidh</author><text>Well, as of early May there were 198 variants identified: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;health-52557955" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;health-52557955</a>
We don&#x27;t know that there&#x27;s any difference, currently, between what variants are dominant in different parts of the world. But, we sure don&#x27;t know they&#x27;re the same, either.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AlanSE</author><text>It&#x27;s the same virus no matter where you are in the world. Weekly new cases (per capita) is the best metric for how likely you are to get it when you step outside.</text></item><item><author>rhizome31</author><text>I may be wrong but it seems that the number of confirmed cases isn&#x27;t a great indicator either because we&#x27;ve been testing a lot more so it&#x27;s expected that we&#x27;re getting more positives. What matters is the number of people who die or get seriously ill, isn&#x27;t it?</text></item><item><author>niyaven</author><text>If you look at yesterdays&#x27; stats, Lyon (#1) and Paris (#2) are respectively at 97% and 90% of usual mobility. Yet the number of confirmed cases in France, over the last 15 days, went from 293 024 to 404 888.<p>This index won&#x27;t tell you wether it&#x27;s safe to move around or not, just what people are doing and what authorities are allowing.</text></item><item><author>AJRF</author><text>One interesting coronavirus metric I’ve been tracking is mobility indexes. I know it sounds tin-foil-hat-y but I don’t trust western media coverage on Russia or China and so to gauge the situation in those countries I’ve tried looking at data rather than opinion.<p>The Citymapper app has a “CityMapper Mobility Index” which shows what percentage of a given city is moving compared to a pre-March peg. It’s been interesting to see Moscow and St.Petersburg back to almost 100% capacity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Russian vaccine for Covid-19</title><url>https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30402-1/fulltext</url></story> |
17,396,280 | 17,395,183 | 1 | 2 | 17,394,534 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Diederich</author><text>Hah, there&#x27;s my domain, from 1996:<p>REALMS.ORG<p>Admin: Diederich, Dana [email protected] (601)374-6510
...<p>I actually started the process of acquiring realms.org in 1994. At the time, you sent an e-mail to &#x27;a guy&#x27; in DC. It took some time, but I finally got it registered in 1995. It was, of course, a free service.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Old Internet Files</title><url>https://rscott.org/OldInternetFiles/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smhenderson</author><text>Seeing &quot;domain-contacts.txt&quot; reminded how much simpler the internet used to be. Imagine not being afraid of giving out your contact info to the whole internet!<p>I&#x27;m not sure if the people who participated at the time would ever have imagined the need for whois anonymizers and weird tricks to keep your email address from being picked up by robots and spiders.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Old Internet Files</title><url>https://rscott.org/OldInternetFiles/</url></story> |
25,040,877 | 25,040,721 | 1 | 3 | 25,038,734 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bentcorner</author><text>&gt; <i>I have the manufacturer of a product (a @wirecutter
pick, no less) that I reviewed 3 stars, who has been emailing me offers of increasing amounts of money to take it down. The most recent offer is well over what I spent on the product. I revised my review down to 1 star.</i><p>Meta-scam: Buy cheap items that are review-scammed and write a thorough, plausible 1-star review, hold out for profit. Rinse, repeat.</text><parent_chain><item><author>msoad</author><text>There is a whole network of fake reviewers, agents and sellers that pump up products on Amazon. It is extremely easy to find those people. A simple search for &quot;Amazon Reviews&quot; on Facebook will take you to a few <i>open</i> Facebook Groups. Here are a few examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;amazonrrc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;amazonrrc&#x2F;</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;AmReSe&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;AmReSe&#x2F;</a><p>I was curious and contacted one of them. They sent proof screenshots that they indeed refund you if you buy a products and leave a good review. They instructed me to search for specific term to find the product instead of giving me a link to click on.<p>For Amazon, this is easy to prevent because it is so easy to find sellers that are engaging in that sort of activity.<p>As always, if you follow the money, Amazon has little interest in doing so...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Review Scam</title><url>https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1325882623424565248</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>texasbigdata</author><text>Not just that, but the last 3 things I bought (workout stuff) last week from Amazon each had a little notecard inside with a bait for a review and a hinted at alternative dispute resolution system; and none of the items was particularly expensive which suggests the customer acquisition cost of having a high ranking Amazon item must be so low it makes sense to defend it aggressively with gift cards and such.</text><parent_chain><item><author>msoad</author><text>There is a whole network of fake reviewers, agents and sellers that pump up products on Amazon. It is extremely easy to find those people. A simple search for &quot;Amazon Reviews&quot; on Facebook will take you to a few <i>open</i> Facebook Groups. Here are a few examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;amazonrrc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;amazonrrc&#x2F;</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;AmReSe&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;AmReSe&#x2F;</a><p>I was curious and contacted one of them. They sent proof screenshots that they indeed refund you if you buy a products and leave a good review. They instructed me to search for specific term to find the product instead of giving me a link to click on.<p>For Amazon, this is easy to prevent because it is so easy to find sellers that are engaging in that sort of activity.<p>As always, if you follow the money, Amazon has little interest in doing so...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Review Scam</title><url>https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1325882623424565248</url></story> |
21,880,184 | 21,879,766 | 1 | 2 | 21,879,397 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anvaka</author><text>Hey, author of the project and the 2013 post here.<p>Just wanted to wish everyone amazing holidays! Thank you for love and shares :D<p>PS: More projects since 2013 can be found here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;search?q=from%3Aanvaka%20min_retweets%3A20&amp;src=typed_query" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;search?q=from%3Aanvaka%20min_retweets%3A...</a> - hope you enjoy it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (2013)</title><url>https://github.com/anvaka/atree#</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shakna</author><text>This one [0][1] is probably my favourite variation.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.wolfram.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;portal&#x2F;getImageAttachment?filename=tree.gif&amp;userId=93201" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.wolfram.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;portal&#x2F;getImageAttachment?fi...</a><p>[1] Silvia Hao&#x27;s reply at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.wolfram.com&#x2F;groups&#x2F;-&#x2F;m&#x2F;t&#x2F;175891" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.wolfram.com&#x2F;groups&#x2F;-&#x2F;m&#x2F;t&#x2F;175891</a> (Also, why doesn&#x27;t it have id attributes for individual replies?)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (2013)</title><url>https://github.com/anvaka/atree#</url></story> |
17,187,539 | 17,187,298 | 1 | 2 | 17,186,591 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>I think you are entirely right that the &quot;sell books and consulting&quot; is a major driver of what Agile became. I got involved in the Agile world circa 2000, but by 2010 or so my main feeling was increasing horror: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;agilefocus.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;02&#x2F;21&#x2F;agiles-second-chasm-and-how-we-fell-in&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;agilefocus.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;02&#x2F;21&#x2F;agiles-second-chasm-and-how...</a><p>One of the especially interesting things to me was that at the beginning there were a variety of different methods. People behind them got together in 2001 to figure out what was common, and that&#x27;s where the Agile Manifesto came from. Of the Agile Manifesto signatories, I think only two of them were Scrum people. These days, though, most people thing that Scrum is Agile and Agile is Scrum.<p>I see three reasons for that. One, Scrum was the simplest, arguably the lowest common denominator; it had no technical practices. Two, it could be installed in place at existing waterfall companies doing what is effectively mini-waterfall, so there would be little disruption to the hierarchy. And three, it had a &quot;certification&quot; program, where a) anybody wanting a career bump could spend 2 days to get a &quot;Master&quot; certificate without taking any test or proving any competence, and b) any &quot;consultant&quot; wanting easy money could quickly become a Scrum trainer. Basically, Scrum became the Amway of software processes.<p>If you go by actual behavior, it turns out the highest priority at most companies is not actually to improve, to get better at making things for users. It&#x27;s instead to make managers and executives <i>feel</i> like something is being done without disturbing the power hierarchy. Low-end Scrum fills that need adequately, letting you move marginally in the direction of agility, apply some new labels, and declare &quot;mission accomplished&quot;.<p>And my point here isn&#x27;t &quot;Scrum bad&quot;, really. There are some great people in the Scrum world. My point is, &quot;Business models shape outcomes, so be careful which you pick.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickelcitymario</author><text>Like any and every business theory, Scrum has one or two core ideas that are awesome, but could be explained adequately in a paragraph or two. This does not sell books and consulting, so it evolved into a field of its own.<p>The fact that there is so much B.S. in Scrum doesn&#x27;t mean that it has nothing of value to offer, though.<p>Here&#x27;s what I get out of it:<p>1. Sprints are a better way to organize than Waterfalls. I&#x27;ve experienced this over and over again personally, so I&#x27;m sold on this.<p>2. It&#x27;s important to stop what you&#x27;re doing on a regular basis to evaluate progress and problems. This always seems like a waste in the moment, but failure to do so leads to regret down the line.<p>3. Ship functional products as frequently as possible. This is better than waiting until everything is done, because you can get feedback early and often from the end user.<p>Okay, so that&#x27;s 3 ideas. It&#x27;s better than most.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scrum disempowers developers</title><url>https://www.lambdacambridge.com/blog/how-scrum-disempowers-developers-and-destroys-agile</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mmusson</author><text>My experience is that a good team does a good job. A bad team doesn’t.<p>I think the focus on methodologies is to get a good result from an uneven team. Companies desperately want to treat programmers like standardized workers that can be mixed and matched as needed. The siren song of the methodology is that maybe it can achieve that goal. I have never seen this work in practice.<p>There are no quick fixes. People can improve but it takes time, dedication, and support.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickelcitymario</author><text>Like any and every business theory, Scrum has one or two core ideas that are awesome, but could be explained adequately in a paragraph or two. This does not sell books and consulting, so it evolved into a field of its own.<p>The fact that there is so much B.S. in Scrum doesn&#x27;t mean that it has nothing of value to offer, though.<p>Here&#x27;s what I get out of it:<p>1. Sprints are a better way to organize than Waterfalls. I&#x27;ve experienced this over and over again personally, so I&#x27;m sold on this.<p>2. It&#x27;s important to stop what you&#x27;re doing on a regular basis to evaluate progress and problems. This always seems like a waste in the moment, but failure to do so leads to regret down the line.<p>3. Ship functional products as frequently as possible. This is better than waiting until everything is done, because you can get feedback early and often from the end user.<p>Okay, so that&#x27;s 3 ideas. It&#x27;s better than most.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scrum disempowers developers</title><url>https://www.lambdacambridge.com/blog/how-scrum-disempowers-developers-and-destroys-agile</url></story> |
27,674,594 | 27,674,193 | 1 | 3 | 27,673,223 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phantom_oracle</author><text>I looked into this the last time someone posted about it here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27551619" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27551619</a><p>One thing I realized is how expensive Ethereum domains are. The domain price is equivalent to a regular domain and then you still have to pay the gas fee, which makes it more expensive than a casual .org or .net<p>The other drawback of these censorship-resistant blogs is that they all require plugins to access the non-HTTP domain, which all but rules out most non-technical people who don&#x27;t even know what HTTP is.<p>And while it can still be accessed over HTTP, the bottlenecks become the same companies that might comply with censorship requests.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building Permanent and Censorship-Resistant Blog with Ethereum ENS and IPFS</title><url>https://pawelurbanek.com/ipfs-ethereum-blog</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marcus_holmes</author><text>Nice post, thanks for making it :)<p>I&#x27;m always curious, though - there are some things that we want to censor for good reasons. The usual poster child (sorry) for this is kiddie porn. But there&#x27;s other stuff - revenge porn, libel, etc that we as a society might want to censor. How do we do this on infrastructure like IPFS?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building Permanent and Censorship-Resistant Blog with Ethereum ENS and IPFS</title><url>https://pawelurbanek.com/ipfs-ethereum-blog</url></story> |
24,214,766 | 24,215,128 | 1 | 2 | 24,213,325 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fsckboy</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m not aware of any definition of &quot;free market&quot; which supposes that all players have equal leverage.<p>bog standard microeconomics 101 uses as an assumption that no player can thru individual choices affect prices in the market, i.e. all players do have equal leverage, zero.<p>&quot;free market&quot; has more than one usage, but economics&#x27;s conclusions are valid only if the assumptions are met.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway894345</author><text>&gt; A lot of economic arguments forget these ideas. The labor market is not a free market: companies have more power in negotiation, they have more information and, most important of all, they can deal with a job opening not being covered most of the time. Workers can&#x27;t usually live too much without finding a job.<p>I&#x27;m generally in favor of stronger job protections and so on, but I&#x27;m not aware of any definition of &quot;free market&quot; which supposes that all players have equal leverage. As I understand it, an economy with powerful corporations and relatively weak workers could still satisfy the definition for &#x27;free market&#x27;; in other words, power dynamics are orthogonal to market freedom.</text></item><item><author>gjulianm</author><text>&gt; Textbooks state that, in the absence of a minimum wage, a worker is paid his “marginal product of labour”, which means the value of what he produces.<p>&gt; Just as a monopolist can set prices higher than would be the case in a competitive market, a monopsonist can set prices artificially lower.<p>A lot of economic arguments forget these ideas. The labor market is not a free market: companies have more power in negotiation, they have more information and, most important of all, they can deal with a job opening not being covered most of the time. Workers can&#x27;t usually live too much without finding a job.<p>That&#x27;s why minimum wage laws and workers rights are important. Companies will always push for lower wages wherever they can, without a care for the actual wealth created by the worker. The only way to counter that push is by giving more power to the worker, and in low-skilled fields with lots of available workers, you need to do that through regulations and subsidies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What harm do minimum wages do?</title><url>https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2020/08/15/what-harm-do-minimum-wages-do</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wtallis</author><text>If you&#x27;re having a rational conversation with reasonable people, sure. But there are plenty of people who will insist that anything making a market less free is harmful, a bad idea and bad public policy. If you try to reconcile that, you may infer that they seem to be working with an unusually constrained definition of &quot;free market&quot;, but that&#x27;s usually not the most straightforward explanation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway894345</author><text>&gt; A lot of economic arguments forget these ideas. The labor market is not a free market: companies have more power in negotiation, they have more information and, most important of all, they can deal with a job opening not being covered most of the time. Workers can&#x27;t usually live too much without finding a job.<p>I&#x27;m generally in favor of stronger job protections and so on, but I&#x27;m not aware of any definition of &quot;free market&quot; which supposes that all players have equal leverage. As I understand it, an economy with powerful corporations and relatively weak workers could still satisfy the definition for &#x27;free market&#x27;; in other words, power dynamics are orthogonal to market freedom.</text></item><item><author>gjulianm</author><text>&gt; Textbooks state that, in the absence of a minimum wage, a worker is paid his “marginal product of labour”, which means the value of what he produces.<p>&gt; Just as a monopolist can set prices higher than would be the case in a competitive market, a monopsonist can set prices artificially lower.<p>A lot of economic arguments forget these ideas. The labor market is not a free market: companies have more power in negotiation, they have more information and, most important of all, they can deal with a job opening not being covered most of the time. Workers can&#x27;t usually live too much without finding a job.<p>That&#x27;s why minimum wage laws and workers rights are important. Companies will always push for lower wages wherever they can, without a care for the actual wealth created by the worker. The only way to counter that push is by giving more power to the worker, and in low-skilled fields with lots of available workers, you need to do that through regulations and subsidies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What harm do minimum wages do?</title><url>https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2020/08/15/what-harm-do-minimum-wages-do</url></story> |
38,892,094 | 38,892,011 | 1 | 2 | 38,889,833 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Tuna-Fish</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s too bad that there&#x27;s not a good way to have a broader way to switch between dialects within a project where in one place it&#x27;s &quot;this portion of the code is perf-critical and carefully reviewed&quot; and in another &quot;this portion of the code is perf-oblivious and has lots of async state that&#x27;s easy to get wrong&quot;. I&#x27;ve wondered if it&#x27;s almost worth mixing two separate languages (like a GCed one for the latter) just to make the distinction clear.<p>You are describing Rust&#x27;s &quot;unsafe&quot; keyword.<p>And this kind of code is very literally the original impetus of it. The language was sort of originally designed to implement a browser, after all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>evmar</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to browse the large collection under chrome&#x2F;browser&#x2F;ui and ponder over how many of them are use-after-free for data where the performance of manual memory management really doesn&#x27;t matter. Like [1] which is around the lifecycle of a &quot;choose a file&quot; dialog.<p>It feels like in the big picture sense it would be better to just always using some sort of smarter&#x2F;slower pointers in this kind of code just for extra defense. I saw in [2] there is some sort of `raw_ptr&lt;T&gt;` type [3] that seems to intend to help, so maybe the crash in [2] was actually successfully defended against?<p>It&#x27;s too bad that there&#x27;s not a good way to have a broader way to switch between dialects within a project where in one place it&#x27;s &quot;this portion of the code is perf-critical and carefully reviewed&quot; and in another &quot;this portion of the code is perf-oblivious and has lots of async state that&#x27;s easy to get wrong&quot;. I&#x27;ve wondered if it&#x27;s almost worth mixing two separate languages (like a GCed one for the latter) just to make the distinction clear.<p>[Disclaimer: worked on this code many years ago, wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if I caused &gt;0 of these bugs...]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=1201032" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=120103...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=1323239" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=132323...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;source.chromium.org&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;src&#x2F;+&#x2F;main:base&#x2F;memory&#x2F;raw_ptr.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;source.chromium.org&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;src&#x2F;+&#x2F;main:bas...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chromium bug bounty money tree browser</title><url>https://lyra.horse/misc/chromium_vrp_tree.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wongarsu</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;ve wondered if it&#x27;s almost worth mixing two separate languages (like a GCed one for the latter) just to make the distinction clear.<p>Python, with perf critical sections written in C or Rust is pretty much that. From what I hear the Rust-Python bindings are especially good, and make the correctness part easier even in the performance critical parts.<p>Or you can go the opposite way and call out to a scripting language from your fast language. Today everyone is hyped about wasm for that, but we also have about two decades of computer games using lua for that (and games are probably the single biggest category of performance sensitive software)</text><parent_chain><item><author>evmar</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to browse the large collection under chrome&#x2F;browser&#x2F;ui and ponder over how many of them are use-after-free for data where the performance of manual memory management really doesn&#x27;t matter. Like [1] which is around the lifecycle of a &quot;choose a file&quot; dialog.<p>It feels like in the big picture sense it would be better to just always using some sort of smarter&#x2F;slower pointers in this kind of code just for extra defense. I saw in [2] there is some sort of `raw_ptr&lt;T&gt;` type [3] that seems to intend to help, so maybe the crash in [2] was actually successfully defended against?<p>It&#x27;s too bad that there&#x27;s not a good way to have a broader way to switch between dialects within a project where in one place it&#x27;s &quot;this portion of the code is perf-critical and carefully reviewed&quot; and in another &quot;this portion of the code is perf-oblivious and has lots of async state that&#x27;s easy to get wrong&quot;. I&#x27;ve wondered if it&#x27;s almost worth mixing two separate languages (like a GCed one for the latter) just to make the distinction clear.<p>[Disclaimer: worked on this code many years ago, wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if I caused &gt;0 of these bugs...]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=1201032" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=120103...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=1323239" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=132323...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;source.chromium.org&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;src&#x2F;+&#x2F;main:base&#x2F;memory&#x2F;raw_ptr.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;source.chromium.org&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;src&#x2F;+&#x2F;main:bas...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chromium bug bounty money tree browser</title><url>https://lyra.horse/misc/chromium_vrp_tree.html</url></story> |
38,417,205 | 38,416,895 | 1 | 2 | 38,415,252 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SamBam</author><text>Exactly, that was my thought. How would it be <i>possible</i> to get anything other than the D-K effect, even if it wasn&#x27;t just averaging to the mean?<p>The lowest quartile can&#x27;t say they&#x27;re below the lowest quartile, so any error at all will be counted as &quot;overconfidence.&quot; The top quartile can&#x27;t say they&#x27;re above the top quartile, so any error at all will be counted as &quot;underconfidance.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>bitshiftfaced</author><text>The authors did &quot;X - Y vs X,&quot; but that&#x27;s not even the biggest problem. The authors subtracted two measures that had been transformed and bounded from 0 to 1 (think percentiles). What happens at the extremes of those bounds? How much can your top performers overestimate their performance? They&#x27;re almost at 1 already, so not much. If they were to overestimate and underestimate at the same rate and by the same magnitude in terms of raw values, the ceiling effect on the transformed values means that the graph will make it look like they underestimate more often. The opposite problem happens for the worst performers.<p>See &quot;Random Number Simulations Reveal How Random Noise Affects the Measurements and Graphical Portrayals of Self-Assessed Competency.&quot; Numeracy 9, Iss. 1 (2016), particularly figures 7, 8, and 9.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation</title><url>https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dclowd9901</author><text>I think if people at all levels of skill were reasonably good at measuring their own ability, we would see two curves that roughly overlap. Instead we see the graph given.<p>The fact that random noise can generate a mean curve on the Y axis doesn’t mean DK doesn’t exist. It just means DK’s mean self analysis resembles a middling random mean, which if you think about it, makes sense. Most people will probably self evaluate as average, regardless of their actual skill. This means DK is right as rain.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bitshiftfaced</author><text>The authors did &quot;X - Y vs X,&quot; but that&#x27;s not even the biggest problem. The authors subtracted two measures that had been transformed and bounded from 0 to 1 (think percentiles). What happens at the extremes of those bounds? How much can your top performers overestimate their performance? They&#x27;re almost at 1 already, so not much. If they were to overestimate and underestimate at the same rate and by the same magnitude in terms of raw values, the ceiling effect on the transformed values means that the graph will make it look like they underestimate more often. The opposite problem happens for the worst performers.<p>See &quot;Random Number Simulations Reveal How Random Noise Affects the Measurements and Graphical Portrayals of Self-Assessed Competency.&quot; Numeracy 9, Iss. 1 (2016), particularly figures 7, 8, and 9.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation</title><url>https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/</url></story> |
2,826,021 | 2,825,973 | 1 | 2 | 2,825,638 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phugoid</author><text>The turtle wins the race.<p>Startup blogs and gurus often give the sense of false urgency. But if you keep your burn rate low and stay on course, you'll probably get there just as well. Worrying about competitors beating you to market seems silly to me in most cases. Definitely in mine anyway.<p>You have to find time to sip your coffee, play with your kids, read HN, and maybe even pull the guitar off the stand once in a while. Did I mention the wife in there? Life is not something you'll starting living after you make it rich.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reading Hacker News is not launching</title><url>http://jcromartie.tumblr.com/post/8255551864/reading-hacker-news-is-not-launching</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skrebbel</author><text>Since I've started to frequent HN, I've learnt <i>a lot</i> about stuff I wasn't initially very familiar with (mostly the non-technical stuff posted here). Recently, however, I find that more and more of what I read is slight variations of what I read before; I don't learn as much anymore. I think that this is not HN but me, and I think it's good.<p>Basically, for me, it may very well be that reading HN for the first few months <i>is</i> launching, but reading HN for over a year isn't.<p>Needless to say, it looks like I'm not launching anytime soon.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reading Hacker News is not launching</title><url>http://jcromartie.tumblr.com/post/8255551864/reading-hacker-news-is-not-launching</url><text></text></story> |
35,526,274 | 35,525,691 | 1 | 3 | 35,524,375 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jdontillman</author><text>The NOAA Sea Level Trends data and visualizations are fascinating:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov&#x2F;sltrends&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov&#x2F;sltrends&#x2F;</a><p>Sea levels have been monitored for over 100 years... because of commerce.<p>East coast US seems to be going up about 3mm&#x2F;year, or a foot per century. That&#x27;s on top of 7 foot tides.<p>West coast US is very steady, barely moving at all.<p>The sea level is dropping in Alaska by 10mm&#x2F;year. Dropping in Scandinavia also.<p>Some cities show rising sea levels, but really the cities are sinking due to collapsing aquifers; New Orleans and Bangkok. And measurements made on river deltas are always going to be wild due to silt and all.<p>Most notably, I can&#x27;t find an example in the NOAA data of the rate of sea level rise increasing due to industrialization. Anybody?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is sea level rise worse in some places?</title><url>https://nautil.us/why-is-sea-level-rise-worse-in-some-places-294325/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wanderinghogan</author><text>It&#x27;s wild how locally variable the sea level surface is. I worked on a study that incorporated local sea levels into a bath-tub style sea level rise model that that also incorporated storm surge using ADCIRC modeling, and we tried to account for local land subsidence and uplift rates... anyways.<p>If you look at the &quot;NOAA Tides and Currents&quot; data, and go to Maryland, and click two points across the Chesapeake bay from each other. Go to More Data &gt; Datum, you can see just across a 20 mile stretch of bay, Bishops Head MD MHHW (Mean Higher High Water, when there are two daily high tides, this is the elevation of the higher of the two) is 2.06 Feet over the vertical datum, while 20 miles away at Solomons Island MD it&#x27;s a half foot lower, 1.48 Ft.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is sea level rise worse in some places?</title><url>https://nautil.us/why-is-sea-level-rise-worse-in-some-places-294325/</url></story> |
7,436,531 | 7,436,503 | 1 | 2 | 7,436,140 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Shivetya</author><text>We have to be careful here, while I am all for Tesla being able to sell their cars where they want I want assurances I can get their car and any other car serviced where I want.<p>Car dealers and independent auto service centers need protection from manufactures; dealers can service brands they don&#x27;t sell should they choose.<p>The danger in allowing manufacturers to determine how sales are made is they will likely dictate how repair and maintenance is handled. While maintenance on an electronic vehicle is going to be significantly different my warranty should not be affected should I choose someone other than the manufacturer to repair it.<p>disclaimer, I work for a leading supplier of auto parts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beat</author><text>This is something I think a lot of people don&#x27;t get about Tesla&#x27;s state-by-state fight with the dealer networks. It&#x27;s not about hating on electric cars. It&#x27;s about the threat that Tesla&#x27;s model poses to their entire industry. Frankly, Ford doesn&#x27;t need its dealer network any more than Tesla does now, or they shouldn&#x27;t. They could go to the same shop-online and drop-ship model, and cut out a middleman. If any of the major automakers start killing dealers, the whole industry will die, and quickly.<p>Why? <i>Because they&#x27;re parasites</i>. The dealer network evolved to solve distribution problems from 100 years ago. It makes zero sense as a business model in the 21st century. &quot;Ripe for disruption&quot;, as we&#x27;d say in these parts. All they have is inertia, deep political connections, and a century of regulatory mazes. But those are three very big things to have.<p>Still, they&#x27;re fighting a defensive war. They will lose. The question is only how quickly, and at what cost to consumers?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Can Topple the Car-Dealer Monopoly</title><url>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-20/tesla-can-topple-the-car-dealer-monopoly</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bluedevil2k</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t be so dismissive of dealers by simply saying &quot;They will lose.&quot; The most important thing in American politics is power, and power comes from money (sounds like that comes directly from House of Cards). The article points out that the car dealer lobby is well funded and powerful. It even points out that they are exempt from the Consumer Protection laws, meaning they don&#x27;t have to disclose the awful interest rates they are offering (which surprised me). Look at the size of a company like AutoNation ($6.3B market cap). They aren&#x27;t a local mom and pop car dealer. Never underestimate the fight of a wounded animal backed into a corner.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beat</author><text>This is something I think a lot of people don&#x27;t get about Tesla&#x27;s state-by-state fight with the dealer networks. It&#x27;s not about hating on electric cars. It&#x27;s about the threat that Tesla&#x27;s model poses to their entire industry. Frankly, Ford doesn&#x27;t need its dealer network any more than Tesla does now, or they shouldn&#x27;t. They could go to the same shop-online and drop-ship model, and cut out a middleman. If any of the major automakers start killing dealers, the whole industry will die, and quickly.<p>Why? <i>Because they&#x27;re parasites</i>. The dealer network evolved to solve distribution problems from 100 years ago. It makes zero sense as a business model in the 21st century. &quot;Ripe for disruption&quot;, as we&#x27;d say in these parts. All they have is inertia, deep political connections, and a century of regulatory mazes. But those are three very big things to have.<p>Still, they&#x27;re fighting a defensive war. They will lose. The question is only how quickly, and at what cost to consumers?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Can Topple the Car-Dealer Monopoly</title><url>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-20/tesla-can-topple-the-car-dealer-monopoly</url></story> |
28,435,576 | 28,433,750 | 1 | 2 | 28,431,962 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mtnGoat</author><text>Call me crazy but I always focus more on the individual and asking them personal questions more than delving into silly leetcode they learned for the sake of gaming a system and will soon forget.<p>My company works with a bunch of not so mainstream APIs so if I just waited for experts in everything we work on, I’d wait forever. I’d rather hire good, smart, people and then fill in the gaps in their knowledge. Smart, hardworking dedicated employees are much harder to find than leetcoders. And they learn really quickly with a lot less attitude and grandiose opinions of themselves.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hiring Developers: How to avoid the best</title><url>https://www.getparthenon.com/blog/how-to-avoid-hiring-the-best-developers/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>GeekFortyTwo</author><text>Recently changed jobs in tech, high demand skillset.<p>I sent out exactly one copy of my resume to a company that I thought might be interesting to work for. Otherwise I just responded to LinkedIn recruiter requests.<p>In the time it took that one company to get back to me at all, I had landed a job and was on week 2 of 3 weeks notice.<p>Move fast matters.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hiring Developers: How to avoid the best</title><url>https://www.getparthenon.com/blog/how-to-avoid-hiring-the-best-developers/</url></story> |
38,885,520 | 38,883,398 | 1 | 3 | 38,882,358 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kevin_b_er</author><text>This needs to be in *management* ethics. It was the *management* that ignored warnings. The &quot;compromises&quot; were demanded by *management*.<p>Boeing is not an engineering culture, it is an MBA culture. This is the result.<p>It is clear, by deadly example, that Boeing *management* is not capable of running a company that produces a safe plane. It is, after all, difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.<p>All the engineering ethics in the world does nothing against the greed of Boeing&#x27;s management.</text><parent_chain><item><author>janice1999</author><text>I hope one day engineering students will study the MAX 7 and learn from the Boeing culture that has killed at least 346 people so far. So many issues (and related cover-ups) stem from the massive compromises made so Boeing could quickly launch a flawed modified plane instead of a new design because Airbus scared their management.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air</title><url>https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-wants-faa-to-exempt-max-7-from-safety-rules-to-get-it-in-the-air/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CoastalCoder</author><text>&gt; I hope one day engineering students will study the MAX 7 and learn from the Boeing culture that has killed at least 346 people so far.<p>I fear that wouldn&#x27;t matter, because they could end up working (indirectly) for stockholders that find that dollar-to-lives tradeoff desireable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>janice1999</author><text>I hope one day engineering students will study the MAX 7 and learn from the Boeing culture that has killed at least 346 people so far. So many issues (and related cover-ups) stem from the massive compromises made so Boeing could quickly launch a flawed modified plane instead of a new design because Airbus scared their management.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air</title><url>https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-wants-faa-to-exempt-max-7-from-safety-rules-to-get-it-in-the-air/</url></story> |
27,408,508 | 27,408,536 | 1 | 3 | 27,403,394 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>azalemeth</author><text>It&#x27;s worth saying that the book isn&#x27;t <i>entirely</i> declassified. 18 out of 84 sections (including quite a few &quot;Further remarks&quot; or &quot;Final remarks&quot; sections) are completely whited out by the censor&#x27;s box.<p>Also, the actual PDF is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.governmentattic.org&#x2F;39docs&#x2F;NSAmilitaryCryptalyticsPt3_1977.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.governmentattic.org&#x2F;39docs&#x2F;NSAmilitaryCryptalyti...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Declassified Cold War code-breaking manual on solving 'impossible' puzzles</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2021-05-declassified-cold-war-code-breaking-manual.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>westcort</author><text>My grandfather worked with Lambros and shared an amusing booklet from him called &quot;A short list of even primes,&quot; which is a single digit: 2 (with a long and humorous introduction). It is not classified (obviously) and I will try to get around to sharing it on here at some point in the future.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Declassified Cold War code-breaking manual on solving 'impossible' puzzles</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2021-05-declassified-cold-war-code-breaking-manual.html</url></story> |
10,859,961 | 10,860,044 | 1 | 2 | 10,857,859 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jrapdx3</author><text>Remarkable similar to my own history with Postgresql, which I started using in ~1998 at the time of their first public release. Postgresql documentation has indeed been the exemplar for all software, open source or not. It&#x27;s been the SQL textbook I&#x27;ve relied on.<p>With the steady addition of features, it&#x27;s gotten much more complex, and there will come a time when using just the documentation won&#x27;t be enough to learn how to use Postgresql to full advantage. With release of 9.5 we might be there now.<p>Perhaps the logical extension of the documentation is some form of coursework to enable users to learn the DB systematically. I haven&#x27;t looked into it, this might already be offered.</text><parent_chain><item><author>saosebastiao</author><text>Whenever there is a version update, I can&#x27;t help but be grateful for the documentation ethic of Postgres. For the vast majority of my projects I have to wade through unaffiliated and incomplete blog tutorials that may or may not be relevant to the version I&#x27;m trying to use. With anything related to Postgres, I may read about something on a blog post, but I <i>always</i> know that I can count on the Postgres documentation if I need supplemental information, or sometimes I&#x27;ll skip the post and go straight to the official docs. The PostgreSQL project, in my mind, sets the standard globally for software documentation.<p>I should add that Postgres was the first database I ever used, and I literally learned pretty much everything I know about Postgres, SQL, as well as Relational and Set Logic from the official docs. And that was with no background in software development and an undergraduate business degree with Excel being my most technologically advanced toolset. <i>That</i> is a documentation success story.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PostgreSQL 9.5: UPSERT, Row Level Security, and Big Data</title><url>http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1636/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ptman</author><text>I call that BSD culture</text><parent_chain><item><author>saosebastiao</author><text>Whenever there is a version update, I can&#x27;t help but be grateful for the documentation ethic of Postgres. For the vast majority of my projects I have to wade through unaffiliated and incomplete blog tutorials that may or may not be relevant to the version I&#x27;m trying to use. With anything related to Postgres, I may read about something on a blog post, but I <i>always</i> know that I can count on the Postgres documentation if I need supplemental information, or sometimes I&#x27;ll skip the post and go straight to the official docs. The PostgreSQL project, in my mind, sets the standard globally for software documentation.<p>I should add that Postgres was the first database I ever used, and I literally learned pretty much everything I know about Postgres, SQL, as well as Relational and Set Logic from the official docs. And that was with no background in software development and an undergraduate business degree with Excel being my most technologically advanced toolset. <i>That</i> is a documentation success story.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PostgreSQL 9.5: UPSERT, Row Level Security, and Big Data</title><url>http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1636/</url></story> |
19,840,443 | 19,840,481 | 1 | 2 | 19,838,325 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>Maybe, but there&#x27;s clearly and consistently no correlation between <i>enforcing</i> said illegality and addiction: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewtrusts.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;research-and-analysis&#x2F;issue-briefs&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;more-imprisonment-does-not-reduce-state-drug-problems" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewtrusts.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;research-and-analysis&#x2F;issue-bri...</a>. In both of the specific cases mentioned in the article and my comment, it&#x27;s a lower jurisdiction stopping enforcement of a higher jurisdiction&#x27;s laws. Marijuana is still illegal in Colorado, but everyone knows that the TSA are the only ones enforcing it.<p>There&#x27;s also the fact that a lot of black-market stuff only ever happens <i>because</i> it&#x27;s illegal, which is why countries that decriminalize prostitution and take a treat-instead-of-prosecute approach tend to see benefits in addition to fewer people in jail for the associated crimes. I know there are people that won&#x27;t break the law, but there are also people that make beaucoup bucks breaking the law because they&#x27;re good at it. Which one wins out? No idea. Not sure if there&#x27;s a way to get data on that beyond the enforcement vs. addiction studies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Misdicorl</author><text>Yes, absolutely. There is a significant population who will not do something if its illegal. Full stop.</text></item><item><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>Is illegality even <i>A</i> way to prevent addiction? Because most of the data in the US indicates no correlation between enforcement and addiction rates. We say we enforce drug laws for people&#x27;s protection, catch them with drugs, throw them in jail and say, &quot;see? this is what happens when you take drugs.&quot; The discussion around Denver&#x27;s laws has often been on the assumption that before Colorado legalized marijuana, no one had access to marijuana. They throw around statistics with out before &#x2F; after comparisons, or without full context. One famous example was a guy who drove into a parked cop car - a test confirmed that some time in the last 6 months he had smoked marijuana. Nevermind that his BAC was astronomical. Anti-marijuana headlines for days on that one.</text></item><item><author>beat</author><text>A substantial fraction of people become addicted to opiates when they are <i>not</i> freely available, too. Which begs the question... is <i>addiction</i> the problem? Or are the problems consequences of restricted availability?<p>To put it another way... if heroin were legalized tomorrow, would you start shooting up? Is illegality the best (or only) way to prevent addiction? Look at tobacco. It&#x27;s legal. Most people don&#x27;t use it, because it&#x27;s addictive and dangerous, and usage rates have dropped considerably due to social pressures and awareness campaigns.<p>When proposing (or defending) a solution, make sure you ask yourself if it actually solves the problem.</text></item><item><author>ummonk</author><text>Out of curiosity, would you say the same thing about opium poppy? (Serious question, not a gotcha; opium seems to have a much clearer harmful and addictive impact and it seems to be very difficult to prevent a substantial fraction of people from getting addicted to it when it is freely available; would you prioritize principle or practicality in the case of opium?)</text></item><item><author>samcday</author><text>&quot;I’m a different guy. I’m fun to be around. Once I couldn’t even cry. Now I can.&quot;<p>This really punched me in the feels.<p>It also sucks that Justin preferred not to share his last name for fear of retribution for possessing some fungus that occurs naturally in the wild.<p>Kinda reminds me of the veterans in the US who have been trying to lobby the VA to stop being jerks about cannabis. They say it helps with their PTSD. Currently we don&#x27;t have a lot of scientific certainty on whether it actually <i>does</i> help or not because of the lack of research. But even putting that aside, it&#x27;s still kinda absurd that we dictate which naturally growing plants people are allowed to possess &#x2F; cultivate &#x2F; smoke &#x2F; ingest &#x2F; whatever.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Denver voters consider next frontier in decriminalizing drugs: magic mushrooms</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-denver-magic-mushrooms-20190506-story.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mijamo</author><text>There is also a population that will do it BECAUSE it is illegal.<p>And no data that I&#x27;m aware actually points towards prohibition having significant effect.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Misdicorl</author><text>Yes, absolutely. There is a significant population who will not do something if its illegal. Full stop.</text></item><item><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>Is illegality even <i>A</i> way to prevent addiction? Because most of the data in the US indicates no correlation between enforcement and addiction rates. We say we enforce drug laws for people&#x27;s protection, catch them with drugs, throw them in jail and say, &quot;see? this is what happens when you take drugs.&quot; The discussion around Denver&#x27;s laws has often been on the assumption that before Colorado legalized marijuana, no one had access to marijuana. They throw around statistics with out before &#x2F; after comparisons, or without full context. One famous example was a guy who drove into a parked cop car - a test confirmed that some time in the last 6 months he had smoked marijuana. Nevermind that his BAC was astronomical. Anti-marijuana headlines for days on that one.</text></item><item><author>beat</author><text>A substantial fraction of people become addicted to opiates when they are <i>not</i> freely available, too. Which begs the question... is <i>addiction</i> the problem? Or are the problems consequences of restricted availability?<p>To put it another way... if heroin were legalized tomorrow, would you start shooting up? Is illegality the best (or only) way to prevent addiction? Look at tobacco. It&#x27;s legal. Most people don&#x27;t use it, because it&#x27;s addictive and dangerous, and usage rates have dropped considerably due to social pressures and awareness campaigns.<p>When proposing (or defending) a solution, make sure you ask yourself if it actually solves the problem.</text></item><item><author>ummonk</author><text>Out of curiosity, would you say the same thing about opium poppy? (Serious question, not a gotcha; opium seems to have a much clearer harmful and addictive impact and it seems to be very difficult to prevent a substantial fraction of people from getting addicted to it when it is freely available; would you prioritize principle or practicality in the case of opium?)</text></item><item><author>samcday</author><text>&quot;I’m a different guy. I’m fun to be around. Once I couldn’t even cry. Now I can.&quot;<p>This really punched me in the feels.<p>It also sucks that Justin preferred not to share his last name for fear of retribution for possessing some fungus that occurs naturally in the wild.<p>Kinda reminds me of the veterans in the US who have been trying to lobby the VA to stop being jerks about cannabis. They say it helps with their PTSD. Currently we don&#x27;t have a lot of scientific certainty on whether it actually <i>does</i> help or not because of the lack of research. But even putting that aside, it&#x27;s still kinda absurd that we dictate which naturally growing plants people are allowed to possess &#x2F; cultivate &#x2F; smoke &#x2F; ingest &#x2F; whatever.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Denver voters consider next frontier in decriminalizing drugs: magic mushrooms</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-denver-magic-mushrooms-20190506-story.html</url></story> |
4,750,740 | 4,749,258 | 1 | 2 | 4,748,624 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kolbe</author><text>FWIW, I couldn't see your pnl chart.<p>I develop algorithmic strategies for a living, and my first reaction to reading your post was skepticism. I'm skeptical for two reasons. (1) because your methods are so unconventional in an industry where convention rules, and (2) because of the time frame of your success, which happened to be one of the more impressive market recoveries in history.<p>I can't tell you how many people I've worked with who fail to isolate the source of their pnl (myself included at times). This is key. It's important to benchmark your strategy against other stupid ones that you know don't have edge. When someone shows me strategies that worked in 2009 and 2010, I immediately make them prove their strategy was not the equivalent of being long equities.<p>Doing this will truly help isolate whether or not luck is involved. When you say that the number and size of your trades justifies the strategy's validity, that's just wrong. You could do 1000 trades in a day: buy 10 RUT futures at the beginning of the day, sell 10 at the end, and just scratch 1 lots for the other 998 trades. In a bull market like 09-10, that would have made 400k, and would have nothing to do with Machine Learning or its applications to HFT.<p>I make all traders benchmark their work against a series of other strategies that I know have no edge, even though they, at times, can appear to have edge.<p>Now, I'm not saying you didn't have legitimate edge, but you do your readers a disservice by omitting relevant stats and discussions like that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jspaulding</author><text>Hey, I didn't actually intend this to be a course. I do not make any money in the market right now so am certainly not qualified to teach a course on it. And of course, if I was making money in the market I wouldn't have posted this at all. So please everyone remember that. These comments have made me realize it's probably for the best if I do not post the source code. Basically you are competing against armies of PHDs who are buying buildings next to the exchange so they can get their executions slightly faster. It is indeed surprising to me that I was able to make money in the first place. But I do know for a fact that I did make money and I also know that I was not at risk of losing a bunch of money. As mentioned the most I lost in one day was $2000. That's all I was risking.</text></item><item><author>yajoe</author><text>This. I love crazy projects and Show HN's until the cows come home, but this one is dangerous that I must repeat the warning to others.<p>I cannot emphasize how important it is to understand that people who trade using price action (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_action_trading" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_action_trading</a> ) are just speculating based on where they expect the price to move. It's no different than people who play Texas Hold'em online and speculate what cards others have based on betting patterns. If you get good at spotting the patterns (like this guy did) you can go on a winning streak, but when the game changes (as it did for this individual after 2009) then you either go home or go broke.<p>This guy found one edge in 2009. It won him 500k. Fantastic. More than any edge ever won me. But, the market has changed so much since then, with HFT becoming so prevalent (<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/7/3226187/high-frequency-trading-animated-gif" rel="nofollow">http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/7/3226187/high-frequency-trad...</a> ) that please be careful before you follow this course. His code is unlikely to be worth much today unmodified, and when you modify it you'll realize, as I have, that when the other players have access to the order books and can jump the line you have no chance in the game in 2012.<p>One last nit: Please, please post recent data when you talk about projects like this. 2009-2010 is 3 years ago. Since then there was significant turmoil in the US, Asia, and the EU. How are these returns relevant for today?</text></item><item><author>tarr11</author><text>This is just glorified gambling. I am not sure what special insight or advantage he had, other than his own model. Every trader has a model.<p>It could have easily been called "how i lost 500k with machine learning". Like gambling, it's easy to manipulate statistics to show that you did well in some period of time.<p>I worked for a large investment bank about 10 years ago, writing trading programs for quant traders who were market makers. The quants called guys like him "retail" investors and they gleefully picked off all those trades. It's how they made all their money.<p>So, everyone else, beware of making this a case study in how to make lots of money really fast. You are more likely to lose money.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I made $500k with machine learning and high frequency trading</title><url>http://jspauld.com/post/35126549635/how-i-made-500k-with-machine-learning-and-hft</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bjourne</author><text>Guess you are familiar with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias</a>? In 2009, there were probably tonnes of people trying to exploit the market using similar low-tech methods as you. Even if all of them were at best break-even, some of them likely made a lot of money on their unprofitable algorithms by pure chance thanks to the size of the cohort. Those few blogged about it and those who lost money didn't. :) I'm not saying that <i>you</i> just were lucky (please dont take this as criticism) - survival bias is just one of those things that always come to mind when people write about how they broke the market or when some investor is presenting his incredibly smart investment strategy that has netted him millions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jspaulding</author><text>Hey, I didn't actually intend this to be a course. I do not make any money in the market right now so am certainly not qualified to teach a course on it. And of course, if I was making money in the market I wouldn't have posted this at all. So please everyone remember that. These comments have made me realize it's probably for the best if I do not post the source code. Basically you are competing against armies of PHDs who are buying buildings next to the exchange so they can get their executions slightly faster. It is indeed surprising to me that I was able to make money in the first place. But I do know for a fact that I did make money and I also know that I was not at risk of losing a bunch of money. As mentioned the most I lost in one day was $2000. That's all I was risking.</text></item><item><author>yajoe</author><text>This. I love crazy projects and Show HN's until the cows come home, but this one is dangerous that I must repeat the warning to others.<p>I cannot emphasize how important it is to understand that people who trade using price action (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_action_trading" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_action_trading</a> ) are just speculating based on where they expect the price to move. It's no different than people who play Texas Hold'em online and speculate what cards others have based on betting patterns. If you get good at spotting the patterns (like this guy did) you can go on a winning streak, but when the game changes (as it did for this individual after 2009) then you either go home or go broke.<p>This guy found one edge in 2009. It won him 500k. Fantastic. More than any edge ever won me. But, the market has changed so much since then, with HFT becoming so prevalent (<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/7/3226187/high-frequency-trading-animated-gif" rel="nofollow">http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/7/3226187/high-frequency-trad...</a> ) that please be careful before you follow this course. His code is unlikely to be worth much today unmodified, and when you modify it you'll realize, as I have, that when the other players have access to the order books and can jump the line you have no chance in the game in 2012.<p>One last nit: Please, please post recent data when you talk about projects like this. 2009-2010 is 3 years ago. Since then there was significant turmoil in the US, Asia, and the EU. How are these returns relevant for today?</text></item><item><author>tarr11</author><text>This is just glorified gambling. I am not sure what special insight or advantage he had, other than his own model. Every trader has a model.<p>It could have easily been called "how i lost 500k with machine learning". Like gambling, it's easy to manipulate statistics to show that you did well in some period of time.<p>I worked for a large investment bank about 10 years ago, writing trading programs for quant traders who were market makers. The quants called guys like him "retail" investors and they gleefully picked off all those trades. It's how they made all their money.<p>So, everyone else, beware of making this a case study in how to make lots of money really fast. You are more likely to lose money.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I made $500k with machine learning and high frequency trading</title><url>http://jspauld.com/post/35126549635/how-i-made-500k-with-machine-learning-and-hft</url></story> |
11,793,390 | 11,791,971 | 1 | 3 | 11,790,900 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>code_research</author><text>I would like to ask you to please establish a new standard of NOT expecting all kind of config files in a project root directory - this is an annoying pestilence that has to stop and the Jenkins team could really help with that.<p>Please instead establish any kind of directory that is expected where all that project and tooling related meta files are kept, I would like to suggest a top level folder called &quot;config&quot; - but I really do not care, how this is called, as long as that top level config file annoyance will disappear forever.<p>I believe it might be acceptable to expect exactly one optional top level config file that might be called &quot;configrc&quot; that would contain only the path of that actual config path if this is not in a default place.<p>Thank you very much for your attention!</text><parent_chain><item><author>i386</author><text>My team and I designed Blue Ocean. We are really excited to get your feedback and suggestions. Ask me anything :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blue Ocean: a new user experience for Jenkins</title><url>https://jenkins.io/blog/2016/05/26/introducing-blue-ocean/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jancborchardt</author><text>Great stuff! Working as designer on ownCloud where we use Jenkins it always felt outdated in the design department. Really good to see the improvements!<p>I also added the main contributors of the repository to the Open Source Design collective at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;opensourcedesign" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;opensourcedesign</a>, more info at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensourcedesign.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensourcedesign.net</a> – welcome! :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>i386</author><text>My team and I designed Blue Ocean. We are really excited to get your feedback and suggestions. Ask me anything :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blue Ocean: a new user experience for Jenkins</title><url>https://jenkins.io/blog/2016/05/26/introducing-blue-ocean/</url></story> |
15,445,017 | 15,443,906 | 1 | 2 | 15,442,676 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Const-me</author><text>Don’t know about measures. But eventually, after a couple stable FF versions are released with that new renderer, I’d expect positive impact.<p>GPUs are much more power efficient per FLOP. E.g. in my desktop PC, theoretical limit for the CPU is 32 FLOP&#x2F;cycle * 4 cores * 3.2 GHz = 400 GFLOPS, for the GPU the theoretical limit is 2.3 TFLOPS. TDP for them is 84W CPU, 120W GPU.<p>A GPU has vast majority of transistors actually doing math, while in a CPU core, large percentage of these transistors are doing something else. Cache synchronization&#x2F;invalidation, instructions reordering, branch prediction, indirect branch prediction (GPU has none of that), instruction fetch and decode (for GPU that’s shared between a group of cores who execute same instructions in lockstep).</text><parent_chain><item><author>pohl</author><text>Now that this is closer to shipping, I&#x27;m curious what impact this would have on battery life. On the one hand, this is lighting up more silicon; on the other hand: a faster race to sleep, perhaps?<p>Have there been any measurements on what the end result is on a typical modern laptop?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-fps-how-webrender-gets-rid-of-jank/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nonsince</author><text>Your browser is doing ~60fps rendering on the GPU already, it&#x27;s just doing it much less efficiently. This does less work on the CPU _and_ less work on the GPU, for the same result.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pohl</author><text>Now that this is closer to shipping, I&#x27;m curious what impact this would have on battery life. On the one hand, this is lighting up more silicon; on the other hand: a faster race to sleep, perhaps?<p>Have there been any measurements on what the end result is on a typical modern laptop?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-fps-how-webrender-gets-rid-of-jank/</url></story> |
8,990,198 | 8,989,991 | 1 | 2 | 8,989,714 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcv</author><text>Honestly, I don&#x27;t think we should leave it to the occasional individual to do something about it. If we want to stop this, we should ban the import of products that do not meet our own labour standards.<p>We have reasonable work weeks and healthy working conditions because we fought against that exploitation. But instead of stopping it, we ended up merely exporting it; we don&#x27;t make our stuff here anymore, but it&#x27;s made in other countries where the conditions we had in the 19th century are still legal.<p>If we demand the same humane conditions from imported products as we do for locally manufactured goods, then either they get better working conditions, or we get some of those lost jobs back. Probably a bit of both. Either way, everybody wins. (Except that stuff gets a bit more expensive, but that&#x27;s unavoidable when you start paying a fair price.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>bruna597</author><text>Something that bothers me is the fact that even though they have cried on the show and said that they were going to do something to help, if you search for them on the internet, its clear that they aren&#x27;t doing anything about it! Even the girl who has a fashion blog, she is still writing about the trademarks that use this kind of abusive job to make their clothes...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SWEATSHOP – I can´t take any more</title><url>http://www.aftenposten.no/webtv/serier-og-programmer/sweatshopenglish/TRAILER-SWEATSHOP---I-cant-take-any-more-7800835.html?paging=&section=webtv_serierogprogrammer_sweatshop_sweatshopenglish</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>perdunov</author><text>This is probably the normal animal&#x2F;human reaction: to react only when something is hurting you right now. If you take the pain away, the motivation vapors.<p>This is one of the design flaws of the human mind inherited from animals that causes procrastination and lack of willpower.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bruna597</author><text>Something that bothers me is the fact that even though they have cried on the show and said that they were going to do something to help, if you search for them on the internet, its clear that they aren&#x27;t doing anything about it! Even the girl who has a fashion blog, she is still writing about the trademarks that use this kind of abusive job to make their clothes...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SWEATSHOP – I can´t take any more</title><url>http://www.aftenposten.no/webtv/serier-og-programmer/sweatshopenglish/TRAILER-SWEATSHOP---I-cant-take-any-more-7800835.html?paging=&section=webtv_serierogprogrammer_sweatshop_sweatshopenglish</url></story> |
36,054,476 | 36,054,566 | 1 | 3 | 36,051,891 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scott_w</author><text>But those aren’t moral issues, they’re productivity issues. My younger brother used to do his computer job from the office because it was attached to the factory. It meant he could talk directly with the people manufacturing the steel frames he specified in the building dressing to get the right thing built quickly. This was a USP of the company vs other design shops.<p>This could be true for Tesla, there’s no morality to this. The fact Musk brings morality in suggests he’s talking out his arse.<p>Twitter is a different company. If he doesn’t bring morality into it, he doesn’t have to be a hypocrite. He could easily say “working on site is necessary for Tesla, not for Twitter.” Being dogmatic is not good business.</text><parent_chain><item><author>somethoughts</author><text>My two cents on this is that he is saying &quot;working from home is morally wrong&quot; - <i>for his companies</i>... but he left out the <i>for his companies</i> part.<p>He owns a car company and a space ship company - both of which have assembly lines with tons of workers. A majority of his employees will need to be working in a factory or with physical equipment&#x2F;prototypes. Therefore they <i>must</i> be at the office or at the plant.<p>In that environment - allowing a small percentage of people to have the flexibility to work from home all the time, actually can seem amoral as that will create two classes of workers - the in-office class and the laptop WFH class - <i>within the same company</i>.<p>Friction could be generated if for instance the laptop class is making decisions&#x2F;mistakes from the comfort of their PJs which negatively impacts the production line class. Its much easier to just make that 8% laptop class of the company RTO and experience the impact of their decisions.<p>Similar issues would be apparent at Amazon (distribution center workers versus AWS staff) and possibly Apple (i.e. HW Apple engineers have to be in office, but iCloud workers can WFH).<p>I think it&#x27;d be hard&#x2F;impossible that a small cloud first company or small remote only startup like GitLabs would be amoral for being WFH.<p>Twitter could probably be WFH, but in order to make statement that would not possibly be construed as hypocritical he unfortunately can&#x27;t make such a distinction.</text></item><item><author>neom</author><text>I still think out of all the...unique... things Elon has said... work from home is morally wrong has to take the cake. I try to spend time looking at things as radically as I can. I think it&#x27;s helpful to accept folks views as widely as possible, but I&#x27;m still trying to wrap my head around work from home being morally wrong.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y5OHFt8QyiU">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y5OHFt8QyiU</a><p>I was on a bicycle ride listening to this interview when he said it and I literally pulled my bike over and sat for a half hour or so thinking about what I think about the idea, I&#x27;m still not sure what I think. (Intellectual dishonesty or a valid view point?)<p>At least he got me thinking I suppose, heh.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over return-to-office policies</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/23/tech/amazon-walkout/index.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dhx</author><text>&quot;But role XYZ can&#x27;t work from home therefore no one should work from home&quot; is the silliest of all arguments. It&#x27;s similar to &quot;Back in my day, we didn&#x27;t have parental leave and it was very hard, so why is it fair that young people should not have to go through the hardest experience too!&quot;.<p>Here&#x27;s just some of the benefits to on-site workers in role XYZ of other workers being able to WFH:<p>* Quicker commutes (less congestion from people needlessly traveling) and thus more free time.<p>* If a partner is WFH, they haven&#x27;t wasted time commuting and thus have more time and energy to assist with the household.<p>* Higher salaries as the jobs requiring a commute become less desirable vs. WFH jobs.<p>* Higher salaries as the business wastes less money on having unnecessary office facilities and (theoretically at least) workers could demand these savings be reflected in their salaries.<p>* Improved health from reduction in pollution caused by commuting.<p>* Reduced cost of living from less wasted land used for offices that are only used 30% of a week.<p>* Lower taxes or improved government services as less money needs to be wasted on infrastructure that is overwhelmingly built to cater for the 12% per week that it is used to needlessly shuffle everyone around.<p>* Increased productivity from reduction in illnesses transferred on public transport and within office facilities.<p>* Improved happiness and productivity resulting from workers being able to setup a workspace&#x2F;home office that is most productive for their needs. Fresh air, lighting, seating, etc are all controllable by the worker at home.<p>* Households could switch to having a single car.<p>If one were to debate against WFH, more sensible arguments would be things like:<p>* Greater heating &#x2F; cooling efficiency to cram more people in a single cramped building than to have those same people heat &#x2F; cool their homes individually. Passive houses largely solve this.<p>* More efficient access to some services such as getting a haircut, buying goods from a specialist retailer, etc if they&#x27;re all centralised in a CBD as opposed to requiring individuals to travel all across a city. Increased deliveries to home negates this.<p>* Forced exercise (on average) due to workers needing to walk between transport options and an office building, whereas at home they don&#x27;t have to walk anywhere unless they are motivated to do so.</text><parent_chain><item><author>somethoughts</author><text>My two cents on this is that he is saying &quot;working from home is morally wrong&quot; - <i>for his companies</i>... but he left out the <i>for his companies</i> part.<p>He owns a car company and a space ship company - both of which have assembly lines with tons of workers. A majority of his employees will need to be working in a factory or with physical equipment&#x2F;prototypes. Therefore they <i>must</i> be at the office or at the plant.<p>In that environment - allowing a small percentage of people to have the flexibility to work from home all the time, actually can seem amoral as that will create two classes of workers - the in-office class and the laptop WFH class - <i>within the same company</i>.<p>Friction could be generated if for instance the laptop class is making decisions&#x2F;mistakes from the comfort of their PJs which negatively impacts the production line class. Its much easier to just make that 8% laptop class of the company RTO and experience the impact of their decisions.<p>Similar issues would be apparent at Amazon (distribution center workers versus AWS staff) and possibly Apple (i.e. HW Apple engineers have to be in office, but iCloud workers can WFH).<p>I think it&#x27;d be hard&#x2F;impossible that a small cloud first company or small remote only startup like GitLabs would be amoral for being WFH.<p>Twitter could probably be WFH, but in order to make statement that would not possibly be construed as hypocritical he unfortunately can&#x27;t make such a distinction.</text></item><item><author>neom</author><text>I still think out of all the...unique... things Elon has said... work from home is morally wrong has to take the cake. I try to spend time looking at things as radically as I can. I think it&#x27;s helpful to accept folks views as widely as possible, but I&#x27;m still trying to wrap my head around work from home being morally wrong.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y5OHFt8QyiU">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y5OHFt8QyiU</a><p>I was on a bicycle ride listening to this interview when he said it and I literally pulled my bike over and sat for a half hour or so thinking about what I think about the idea, I&#x27;m still not sure what I think. (Intellectual dishonesty or a valid view point?)<p>At least he got me thinking I suppose, heh.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over return-to-office policies</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/23/tech/amazon-walkout/index.html</url></story> |
28,909,388 | 28,909,189 | 1 | 2 | 28,908,383 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yarcob</author><text>My girlfriend bought 100€ worth of adaptors for her Macbook Air and can never find them when she needs them.<p>For a desktop it doesn&#x27;t matter, but for a portable device that you need to carry around every extra thing that you need to carry around is just something you are going to misplace.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chomp</author><text>&gt; I shouldn’t have to pay 80% more just to get HDMI, SD, and other features<p>Pedantic nitpick, but a USB-C hub costs ~$40, or about 4% more than the base price of a Macbook Air.</text></item><item><author>gnicholas</author><text>Glad there’re back, but these are not Pro features and should not be limited to the Pro line (starting at $2,000). These are basic features that should be on consumer machines. I shouldn’t have to pay 80% more just to get HDMI, SD, and other features that were on Apple laptops 6 years ago.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>HDMI, SD Card, and MagSafe. Things people on the internet inclusive but not limited to HN said they will never come back because the future is USB-C.<p>Now I just want to know if the new keyboard has more key travel distance back to the like of MacBook Pro 2015.<p>In case anyone wants to know the thickness difference.<p>MacBook Pro 13&quot; 2015 - 1.8 cm<p>MacBook Pro 13&quot; 2016 - 1.49 &#x2F; 1.55 cm<p>MacBook Pro 14&quot; &#x2F; 16&quot; 2021 - 1.55 &#x2F; 1.66cm<p>So basically even the new 16&quot; is still thinner than the MacBook 2015 era. Which I think vast majority of people were happy with.<p>Edit: Both 14&quot; and 16&quot; have 254 PPI, up from ~220. Apple tends to stick with same PPI for a very long time. So this is interesting. 3456-by-2234 or 3024-by-1964 is 14:9 Ratio. So somewhere in between the old 16:10 and 3:2 which is current trend of Lenovo and Surface Laptop.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch</title><url>https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-14-and-16/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oblio</author><text>But you&#x27;d have to carry that around separately and not forget it, lose it, etc. OP is asking for those ports to be on the laptop itself.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chomp</author><text>&gt; I shouldn’t have to pay 80% more just to get HDMI, SD, and other features<p>Pedantic nitpick, but a USB-C hub costs ~$40, or about 4% more than the base price of a Macbook Air.</text></item><item><author>gnicholas</author><text>Glad there’re back, but these are not Pro features and should not be limited to the Pro line (starting at $2,000). These are basic features that should be on consumer machines. I shouldn’t have to pay 80% more just to get HDMI, SD, and other features that were on Apple laptops 6 years ago.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>HDMI, SD Card, and MagSafe. Things people on the internet inclusive but not limited to HN said they will never come back because the future is USB-C.<p>Now I just want to know if the new keyboard has more key travel distance back to the like of MacBook Pro 2015.<p>In case anyone wants to know the thickness difference.<p>MacBook Pro 13&quot; 2015 - 1.8 cm<p>MacBook Pro 13&quot; 2016 - 1.49 &#x2F; 1.55 cm<p>MacBook Pro 14&quot; &#x2F; 16&quot; 2021 - 1.55 &#x2F; 1.66cm<p>So basically even the new 16&quot; is still thinner than the MacBook 2015 era. Which I think vast majority of people were happy with.<p>Edit: Both 14&quot; and 16&quot; have 254 PPI, up from ~220. Apple tends to stick with same PPI for a very long time. So this is interesting. 3456-by-2234 or 3024-by-1964 is 14:9 Ratio. So somewhere in between the old 16:10 and 3:2 which is current trend of Lenovo and Surface Laptop.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch</title><url>https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-14-and-16/</url></story> |
8,067,158 | 8,067,159 | 1 | 3 | 8,066,196 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rgbrenner</author><text>That&#x27;s great that the drive unit was covered under warranty.. that was Edmunds 4th drive unit in 30,000 miles. Of course, once it hits 50k miles, the warranty period is over, and it&#x27;s $15000 to replace it.<p>MotorTrend reported the same problem.. they&#x27;ve already had it replaced twice.<p><a href="http://seekingalpha.com/article/2312325-tesla-may-have-a-huge-unfunded-warranty-problem-due-to-defective-drivetrains?app=1&amp;uprof=45&amp;dr=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;seekingalpha.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2312325-tesla-may-have-a-hug...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>2013 Tesla Model S Long-Term Road Test</title><url>http://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-s/2013/long-term-road-test/2013-tesla-model-s-drive-unit-iv-the-milling.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jfb</author><text>The most interesting thing about this to me is how similar it is to other long-term road test articles -- IOW, how well Tesla has built a car that conforms to people&#x27;s conceptions about how cars should operate. That&#x27;s extraordinarily impressive; to me, it&#x27;s more impressive than the (admittedly impressive) technology in the cars themselves.<p>I&#x27;m not a fan of the Musk&#x2F;Tony Stark schtick, or of SpaceX, or the hagiographic treatment he receives from the technical press, but I am a fan of Tesla as a carmaker.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>2013 Tesla Model S Long-Term Road Test</title><url>http://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-s/2013/long-term-road-test/2013-tesla-model-s-drive-unit-iv-the-milling.html</url></story> |
35,692,991 | 35,690,597 | 1 | 3 | 35,684,585 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>varispeed</author><text>&gt; but are actually achievable by a suitably motivated _and minted_ individual.<p>Unfortunately, in my country something like this is impossible for most people, simply because they don&#x27;t have space and money to do anything.<p>I had some many projects in mind when I was younger, but my parents were poor and I had a tiny room. We had no garage, no garden. I still saved money to buy soldering iron and electronic components to experiment with, but I was damaging them at such a rate I spent all my savings on components and had to abandon this for many years.<p>I still cannot afford to rent a place where I could do something that interests me and I have a good job. Things also have become much more expensive, so it takes forever. Like I can only afford to order one iteration of project per month and it&#x27;s frustrating I have so many ideas I just don&#x27;t have anywhere to make them.<p>I came up with a system, so that I can store everything in boxes and have stacks of them from the floor to ceiling and a spreadsheet where everything is located, but it takes so much time to take something from the bottom or when I put breadboards in and accidentally disconnect something.<p>Sometimes I get so depressed by this I can&#x27;t even do anything for weeks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jebarker</author><text>I love the audacity of this as a hobby project. It makes me wonder what other audacious hobby ideas would be dismissed by almost everyone but are actually achievable by a suitably motivated individual.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Second IC – Homemade 1000 transistor array chip (2021)</title><url>http://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>markus_zhang</author><text>Have been thinking about making an authentic copy of V2 rocket since like 20...</text><parent_chain><item><author>jebarker</author><text>I love the audacity of this as a hobby project. It makes me wonder what other audacious hobby ideas would be dismissed by almost everyone but are actually achievable by a suitably motivated individual.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Second IC – Homemade 1000 transistor array chip (2021)</title><url>http://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/</url></story> |
17,910,987 | 17,910,963 | 1 | 2 | 17,909,992 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samstave</author><text>I literally want a large Tesla Camper Van.<p>Or at least one of these in Tesla:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mercedes-benz-vans.ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;sprinter-4x4&#x2F;cargo-van" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mercedes-benz-vans.ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;sprinter-4x4&#x2F;cargo-van</a><p>EDIT:<p>To further this thought, what I would truly wish would happen would be that A Tesla-like &quot;drivetrain platform&quot; were available to boutique shops who could build whatever type of cab they wanted onto a standardized system.<p>I worked with a guy in the 90s that took a Corvette Z base and put a 1938 ford on top of it.<p>I&#x27;d like to have the same be done with Tesla drive train bases - where you can have an upper made to fit the lower. Clearly, there would have to be safety standards to be met, so don&#x27;t waste time arguing that point...</text><parent_chain><item><author>Shebanator</author><text>Meh. MB are planning to <i>start</i> production sometime in 2H2019, and no real details about the capabilities of the car. Meanwhile Porsche&#x27;s Taycan will cost more than the Model S while having Model 3-like specs. The new Audi e-tron will also have 250 mile range and a 6 sec 0-60, both worse than the Tesla Model X.<p>Meanwhile Tesla has another 16 months or so to keep selling the Model 3 in large quantities. Color me unimpressed by the german companies&#x27; efforts thus far.<p>It is telling though that most of the companies are focusing on SUVs and not sedans. Tesla needs to up its game with the X and Y to address this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-04/mercedes-readies-first-tesla-rival-in-12-billion-attack-plan</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>debt</author><text>&quot;Meh.&quot;<p>idk it&#x27;s a very well-established 92-year-old luxury brand number 1 in their category, now investing billions in building an all-electric crossover. they already have a large established, loyal customer base. $12 billion seems scarily low; meaning they know they won&#x27;t need much to be able to sell this car.<p>this is a significant threat to Tesla; and the definitive moment we can say that Tesla has awoken the sleeping giants.<p>although on the flip this will help the industry as a whole; it&#x27;s more likely than not that Tesla will sell even more electric cars because of this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Shebanator</author><text>Meh. MB are planning to <i>start</i> production sometime in 2H2019, and no real details about the capabilities of the car. Meanwhile Porsche&#x27;s Taycan will cost more than the Model S while having Model 3-like specs. The new Audi e-tron will also have 250 mile range and a 6 sec 0-60, both worse than the Tesla Model X.<p>Meanwhile Tesla has another 16 months or so to keep selling the Model 3 in large quantities. Color me unimpressed by the german companies&#x27; efforts thus far.<p>It is telling though that most of the companies are focusing on SUVs and not sedans. Tesla needs to up its game with the X and Y to address this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-04/mercedes-readies-first-tesla-rival-in-12-billion-attack-plan</url></story> |
36,356,274 | 36,351,949 | 1 | 3 | 36,350,938 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cragfar</author><text>&gt;They merely got there first, finders keepers.<p>That hasn&#x27;t really been the case for a while. Especially for the larger subs like r&#x2F;videos. R&#x2F;news for example was created 15 years ago and it&#x27;s oldest mod was modded two years ago. Also the admins come in and remove top mods of problematic subs (generally alt right&#x2F;brigading subs) all the time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rjvir</author><text>Spez is CEO because the board and investors deem him to be the best person for the job. Of course, he founded Reddit, so he has a strong case on merit for why he is the #1 person on the planet to run the company.<p>The process for selecting moderators is way less meritocratic or democratic than this. They merely got there first, finders keepers. The analogy for landed gentry is accurate.</text></item><item><author>mlyle</author><text>The richest part here is where spez refers to moderators as a &quot;landed gentry&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;tech-news&#x2F;reddit-protest-blackout-ceo-steve-huffman-moderators-rcna89544" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;tech-news&#x2F;reddit-protest-blacko...</a><p>“And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”<p>What does that make spez relative to the constituents in his community?</text></item><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>Reddit could have avoided all of this years ago by building out the tools that moderators claim to need. Instead, they relied on third parties to create them. Doing this would have nullified mods’ strongest justification for protesting. While removing 3rd party apps is certainly annoying for users, mods are what keep the site functioning.<p>The fact that Reddit chose to take this course of action tells me that they don’t actually know that much about their own website. That might also explain why they never built out the tooling to begin with.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14aeq5j/new_admin_post_if_a_moderator_team_unanimously/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JohnBooty</author><text><p><pre><code> The analogy for landed gentry is accurate.
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Land is finite and subreddits are not. You can fork off and make your own subreddit whenever you like<p>If subreddit mods are landed gentry, then so are open source maintainers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rjvir</author><text>Spez is CEO because the board and investors deem him to be the best person for the job. Of course, he founded Reddit, so he has a strong case on merit for why he is the #1 person on the planet to run the company.<p>The process for selecting moderators is way less meritocratic or democratic than this. They merely got there first, finders keepers. The analogy for landed gentry is accurate.</text></item><item><author>mlyle</author><text>The richest part here is where spez refers to moderators as a &quot;landed gentry&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;tech-news&#x2F;reddit-protest-blackout-ceo-steve-huffman-moderators-rcna89544" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;tech-news&#x2F;reddit-protest-blacko...</a><p>“And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”<p>What does that make spez relative to the constituents in his community?</text></item><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>Reddit could have avoided all of this years ago by building out the tools that moderators claim to need. Instead, they relied on third parties to create them. Doing this would have nullified mods’ strongest justification for protesting. While removing 3rd party apps is certainly annoying for users, mods are what keep the site functioning.<p>The fact that Reddit chose to take this course of action tells me that they don’t actually know that much about their own website. That might also explain why they never built out the tooling to begin with.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14aeq5j/new_admin_post_if_a_moderator_team_unanimously/</url></story> |
1,467,284 | 1,467,309 | 1 | 2 | 1,466,288 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tetha</author><text>I totally agree with this. Forcing users to stay in the REPL, poking simple toy examples is just boring and useless.<p>Just telling, a lot of people got into python, because they wanted to solve a certain problem (I know of an RSS scraper and a state machine framework prototype), and these people just started with a book about python and NO knowledge and after around 3 days, they knew a large amount of python and were sold, because the problem was solved and the language 'felt very good'.<p>I think generally, programming language designers should stop assuming that their language is novel, or different or whatever and people will be clueless learning about the language.<p>If you know like Java, C#, Python or Ruby, NO object oriented language will present you with really large surprises (until you meet Javascript with prototypes, and things turn around a bit and common lisp with generic methods and things warp a bit, but still, the basic concepts behind the language are nothing surprisingly new, I still have my objects which receive objects and do things depending on the message receveid).<p>If you know something along ML, Haskell or some other functional language, it will be really, really hard to surprise you with a functional language. Cool, oCaml has references? Cool, Haskell has monads? That is true, those things might be a bit different, but the basic concepts of immutability, functions and recursion is all the same, no matter what happens.<p>So, tl;dr? You language is not novel, your language is not new, I have used a language which is similar to your language, I will just be bored if you throw me into Programming 101, because your language is new and I will probably just walk away.</text><parent_chain><item><author>derefr</author><text>Now this is exactly the sort of thing we should be taking issue with (from the comments):<p>&#62; A true noob should probably install java, download clojure and clojure-contrib, run the repl, and stay there for couple 2-3 weeks. No IDE, no web app dev, just functional and concurrent programming with clojure in a REPL. They'll be much better off in the long run because they'll either give up (and save time) or learn something truly outside their comfort zone (and understand the benefit of getting setup for real development).<p>When teaching someone a programming language, your first goal should always be to get them to the point where they've made something real in a domain they understand. Then, they can bootstrap that domain knowledge, and its application within the new language, and use it to "grow into" the rest of the language.<p>The <i>best</i> thing for Clojure would be something that lets you write web-apps (or games, or visualizations like Processing...) in it two minutes after clicking "Download"—because those users would be able to say they've <i>done</i> something in Clojure, be able to say they're <i>sure</i> of their knowledge (because if they weren't, the program wouldn't have worked, would it?) and be able to proceed to learn more with confidence. The <i>worst</i> thing would be to download Clojure and be stuck at a REPL invoking (defproto) to overload String methods with no goal in sight—because that kind of knowledge doesn't <i>stick</i>, and won't get you anywhere.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Clojure's n00b attraction problem</title><url>http://gregslepak.posterous.com/clojures-n00b-attraction-problem</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Confusion</author><text>This seems like an obvious and easily attainable goal, but in fact, it isn't. The article suggests Python and Ruby provide a better n00b experience and that is far from true. For instance, Ruby becomes a nightmare as soon as you start mixing your own gems with gems installed by the packaging system. That situation is hard to avoid, as distros usually only support outdated Rails gems and the n00b that thinks 'let me just grab the latest stable Rails version from github' is in for some nasty surprises concerning incompatible combinations of gems. We solved this by moving to Enterprise Ruby and keeping <i>everything</i> local and selfcontained, but it is definitely not very n00b-friendly either. With Python I've had similar experiences: when I was in need of a decent XPath library (mind you, this was over 4 years ago), the best one I could find (4Suite) needed to be installed manually, with all the usual problems of missing -dev libs, install paths and whatnot.<p>A summary of the problem is: the configurations people run are so diverse that it is hard to provide installation instructions that work for all, or even most, of them. As soon as someone wants something not covered by the simplest of tutorials, many of them will run into issues.<p>I think the only solution is documentation. The only thing that works is catalogueing all known problems people have encountered, so that others can easily find solutions to those problems. The largest problem of this solution is that n00bs need to understand their systems and they often don't.</text><parent_chain><item><author>derefr</author><text>Now this is exactly the sort of thing we should be taking issue with (from the comments):<p>&#62; A true noob should probably install java, download clojure and clojure-contrib, run the repl, and stay there for couple 2-3 weeks. No IDE, no web app dev, just functional and concurrent programming with clojure in a REPL. They'll be much better off in the long run because they'll either give up (and save time) or learn something truly outside their comfort zone (and understand the benefit of getting setup for real development).<p>When teaching someone a programming language, your first goal should always be to get them to the point where they've made something real in a domain they understand. Then, they can bootstrap that domain knowledge, and its application within the new language, and use it to "grow into" the rest of the language.<p>The <i>best</i> thing for Clojure would be something that lets you write web-apps (or games, or visualizations like Processing...) in it two minutes after clicking "Download"—because those users would be able to say they've <i>done</i> something in Clojure, be able to say they're <i>sure</i> of their knowledge (because if they weren't, the program wouldn't have worked, would it?) and be able to proceed to learn more with confidence. The <i>worst</i> thing would be to download Clojure and be stuck at a REPL invoking (defproto) to overload String methods with no goal in sight—because that kind of knowledge doesn't <i>stick</i>, and won't get you anywhere.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Clojure's n00b attraction problem</title><url>http://gregslepak.posterous.com/clojures-n00b-attraction-problem</url></story> |
3,986,224 | 3,986,007 | 1 | 2 | 3,985,278 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>micheljansen</author><text>I think the individual comparisons are good, but the conclusion is wrong. Yes, Sass is technically superior to Less; it can do a lot of things that Less cannot. That does not mean that you should use Sass over Less.<p>The truth is, for 99% of use cases they are exactly the same. Sass is a bit more mature and it allows more programming, so it is potentially more powerful than Less, but that also allows it to deviate for CSS further, which is not necessarily a good thing if you have to work with people who only know CSS.<p>I personally use Less because it helps me develop faster. Less is implemented in JavaScript, which means it can run in the browser. Less.js' "watch mode" is awesome for speeding up development: save your .less stylesheet and the browser immediately shows the new styles. This is something SASS cannot do and.<p>Finally, to correct some factual errors in the article: Less <i>does</i> allow some programming, loops etc. It's just incredibly awkward and barely useful, but you can use JavaScript (I used that to make this: <a href="https://github.com/micheljansen/dynamicgif.less" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/micheljansen/dynamicgif.less</a>). Also, the "Helping with CSS3" point is moot if you use <a href="http://lessprefixer.com/" rel="nofollow">http://lessprefixer.com/</a> and keep that updated.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SASS vs. LESS</title><url>http://css-tricks.com/sass-vs-less/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SkyMarshal</author><text>He uses SASS and SCSS interchangeably. For anyone else not familiar with the difference:<p><i>"Sass consists of two syntaxes. The original syntax, called "the indented syntax" uses a syntax similar to Haml.[2] It uses indentation to separate code blocks and newline characters to separate rules. The newer syntax, "SCSS" uses block formatting like that of CSS. It uses curly brackets to denote code blocks and semicolons to separate lines within a block. The indented syntax and SCSS files are traditionally given the extensions .sass and .scss respectively."</i><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scss" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scss</a><p>Also:<p><i>"Sass and LESS both use the standard CSS syntax. This makes it extremely easy to convert an existing CSS file to either preprocessor. Sass uses the .scss file extension and LESS uses the .less extension. The basic Sass or LESS file can be setup like below:<p>...<p>As you may have noticed, this is just regular CSS, which compiles perfectly in both Sass and LESS.
It’s important to note that Sass also has an older syntax, which omits semicolons and curly brackets. Although this is still around, it is old and we won’t be using it past this example. The syntax uses the .sass file extension and looks like this:"</i><p><a href="http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/sass-vs-less-vs-stylus-a-preprocessor-shootout/" rel="nofollow">http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/sass-v...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SASS vs. LESS</title><url>http://css-tricks.com/sass-vs-less/</url></story> |
37,848,522 | 37,847,598 | 1 | 3 | 37,844,225 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>InSteady</author><text>That&#x27;s an extremely easy thing to say from a place of privilege, and of course there is some truth to it. On the other hand, how many chronically broke and miserable people out there are only hanging on for love of a pet (perhaps the only consistent source of love and meaning in their adult or entire lives)? I&#x27;ll bet its a lot. But fuck them, they&#x27;re poor so I guess they should either tough it out alone or die.<p>Sorry to be so harsh about it, but your comment lacks basic empathy so I figured I&#x27;d give you a little dose of same.</text><parent_chain><item><author>FrankoDelMar</author><text>Yeah, well if someone can&#x27;t swing $200 they probably shouldn&#x27;t own a pet.</text></item><item><author>pc86</author><text>The absolute amount of money is irrelevant, it matters what percentage of a person&#x27;s disposable income it is.<p>$10k is nothing if you making half a million dollars a year and have $200k in credit with no balance, because your disposable income is probably $400-450k&#x2F;yr.<p>$200 is a ruinous amount of money if you make minimum wage and take the bus to work because your disposable income is very likely negative.</text></item><item><author>Fomite</author><text>So one of the things that comes up a lot is that it&#x27;s <i>not</i> actually that correlated with cost.<p>Most vets I know (I also work for a state school, not a for profit company) are <i>very</i> sympathetic toward very large and expensive bills, and have always been up front about cost in a way that human medicine is not. There&#x27;s also a myriad of ways they try to reduce bills when they can.<p>The toll is from folks who aren&#x27;t spending much smaller amounts of money on life saving procedures.</text></item><item><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>&gt; hoping someone will pay for a procedure to save their pet&#x27;s life while being braced for &quot;I guess we should put them down...&quot;<p>I&#x27;m sorry, but vet costs are <i>completely</i> out of whack with reality these days. The truth of the matter is that most people cannot justify spending thousands of dollars on a pet, no matter how much they are loved, and that <i>DOES NOT</i> make them bad or unfit owners. The story quoted $10k to remove a skewer a puppy swallowed, and then pressured the owner give the pup up when they couldn&#x27;t afford that. Can you not see how that would be viewed as <i>insanely</i> predatory? For profit companies should not be involved in human or animal medicine. Once that cash cow is gone maybe vet school prices will come down to earth.</text></item><item><author>Fomite</author><text>I work in a veterinary school, and it&#x27;s remarkable to see how worn down veterinarians are compared to my colleagues in &quot;people medicine&quot; (and my comparison group are infectious disease folks - they&#x27;re not exactly a cheerful group).<p>To be honest, at this point, between how hard it is to get into vet school, the debt load, and how you&#x27;re signing up for crushing compassion fatigue your whole life, and a career of hoping someone will pay for a procedure to save their pet&#x27;s life while being braced for &quot;I guess we should put them down...&quot; every day, I wouldn&#x27;t tell someone I cared for to become a vet.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A suicide crisis among veterinarians</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20231010-the-acute-suicide-crisis-among-veterinarians-youre-always-going-to-be-failing-somebody</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ruined</author><text>one&#x27;s financial situation may change very rapidly, and humans have an innate need for companionship and comfort.</text><parent_chain><item><author>FrankoDelMar</author><text>Yeah, well if someone can&#x27;t swing $200 they probably shouldn&#x27;t own a pet.</text></item><item><author>pc86</author><text>The absolute amount of money is irrelevant, it matters what percentage of a person&#x27;s disposable income it is.<p>$10k is nothing if you making half a million dollars a year and have $200k in credit with no balance, because your disposable income is probably $400-450k&#x2F;yr.<p>$200 is a ruinous amount of money if you make minimum wage and take the bus to work because your disposable income is very likely negative.</text></item><item><author>Fomite</author><text>So one of the things that comes up a lot is that it&#x27;s <i>not</i> actually that correlated with cost.<p>Most vets I know (I also work for a state school, not a for profit company) are <i>very</i> sympathetic toward very large and expensive bills, and have always been up front about cost in a way that human medicine is not. There&#x27;s also a myriad of ways they try to reduce bills when they can.<p>The toll is from folks who aren&#x27;t spending much smaller amounts of money on life saving procedures.</text></item><item><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>&gt; hoping someone will pay for a procedure to save their pet&#x27;s life while being braced for &quot;I guess we should put them down...&quot;<p>I&#x27;m sorry, but vet costs are <i>completely</i> out of whack with reality these days. The truth of the matter is that most people cannot justify spending thousands of dollars on a pet, no matter how much they are loved, and that <i>DOES NOT</i> make them bad or unfit owners. The story quoted $10k to remove a skewer a puppy swallowed, and then pressured the owner give the pup up when they couldn&#x27;t afford that. Can you not see how that would be viewed as <i>insanely</i> predatory? For profit companies should not be involved in human or animal medicine. Once that cash cow is gone maybe vet school prices will come down to earth.</text></item><item><author>Fomite</author><text>I work in a veterinary school, and it&#x27;s remarkable to see how worn down veterinarians are compared to my colleagues in &quot;people medicine&quot; (and my comparison group are infectious disease folks - they&#x27;re not exactly a cheerful group).<p>To be honest, at this point, between how hard it is to get into vet school, the debt load, and how you&#x27;re signing up for crushing compassion fatigue your whole life, and a career of hoping someone will pay for a procedure to save their pet&#x27;s life while being braced for &quot;I guess we should put them down...&quot; every day, I wouldn&#x27;t tell someone I cared for to become a vet.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A suicide crisis among veterinarians</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20231010-the-acute-suicide-crisis-among-veterinarians-youre-always-going-to-be-failing-somebody</url></story> |
11,155,200 | 11,154,756 | 1 | 2 | 11,154,447 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MathsOX</author><text>Well the line between traders and quants has always been blurry to the point of no differential at Jane Street, D.E Shaw, and Citadel since inception. Traders have always had quant background, but have focused on more execution-oriented analysis whereas quants are a bit more idea-oriented.<p>Any sell-side investment bank still has clear lines between traders and quants. In fact, while they blurred more pre-2007 I&#x27;d argue they&#x27;ve become more clearly defined.<p>Source: work at a prominent investment bank.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ska</author><text>Lot&#x27;s of &quot;nothing new&quot; comments here, but I think that may be missing the point.<p>Wall Street has been hiring physics &amp; math graduates for a good while now, but typically as quants, not traders. Those were (are?) hugely different positions, in terms of responsibility and dollars realized.<p>Not my area, so I may just be missing something too. But when I had acquaintances going into this sort of things, they weren&#x27;t getting anywhere near a trading desk. At least, not for a while.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A New Breed of Trader on Wall Street: Coders with a Ph.D</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/business/dealbook/a-new-breed-of-trader-on-wall-street-coders-with-a-phd.html?src=busln</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kasey_junk</author><text>The line between trader and quant in electronic trading scenarios is pretty vague and has been for some time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ska</author><text>Lot&#x27;s of &quot;nothing new&quot; comments here, but I think that may be missing the point.<p>Wall Street has been hiring physics &amp; math graduates for a good while now, but typically as quants, not traders. Those were (are?) hugely different positions, in terms of responsibility and dollars realized.<p>Not my area, so I may just be missing something too. But when I had acquaintances going into this sort of things, they weren&#x27;t getting anywhere near a trading desk. At least, not for a while.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A New Breed of Trader on Wall Street: Coders with a Ph.D</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/business/dealbook/a-new-breed-of-trader-on-wall-street-coders-with-a-phd.html?src=busln</url></story> |
5,379,000 | 5,377,815 | 1 | 3 | 5,377,651 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Good stuff, although I'm not a Ruby user. Tools like this should be much more widespread. Code Is Bad because you can't write code without a minimum level of vocabulary and syntax, and that excludes a lot of people. True, code offers the most flexibility, but 99% of the time people don't need all that flexibility and want to accomplish fairly straightforward tasks - which is why GUIs are the norm. With GUIs and visual network design, users select from a palette of what's available and can connect components together without wasting time on syntax.<p>The oft-repeated cry that 'everyone should learn to code' is wrong, wrong, wrong. It's like telling a kid to learn CAD and use a makerbot instead of providing them with a Lego set. Coding is great when you want to make a procedural <i>something</i> generator. If you want to make something specific, then coding often imposes an annoying and unnecessary layer of abstraction. For example, you can write music and/or perform sound synthesis in a superbly powerful language called CSound, but only a tiny number of academic masochists bother to do so. Commercial DSP engineers write in C or assembler, commercial sound designers use Max or Reaktor, much as most electronic engineers use SPICE rather than describe their circuits in code.<p>In short, keep up the good work!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes</title><url>https://github.com/cantino/huginn/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jfim</author><text>Interesting project. Were you aware there's also an unrelated project called Hugin[1]?<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugin_(software)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugin_(software)</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes</title><url>https://github.com/cantino/huginn/</url></story> |
14,241,305 | 14,238,613 | 1 | 2 | 14,237,266 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>milcron</author><text>How about The Register? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;01&#x2F;intel_amt_me_vulnerability&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;01&#x2F;intel_amt_me_vulner...</a><p>There&#x27;s also an Intel advisory <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;security-center.intel.com&#x2F;advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00075&amp;languageid=en-fr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;security-center.intel.com&#x2F;advisory.aspx?intelid=INTE...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tomku</author><text>Is there a better source for this than SemiAccurate? The article doesn&#x27;t really have much beyond self-aggrandizement and &quot;we can&#x27;t tell you any details, but you&#x27;re screwed&quot;. For something that could be anything from &quot;Charlie Demerjian heard a rumor about a ME patch and wanted some pageviews&quot; to the actual security apocalypse, I&#x27;d like credible sources.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel platforms from 2008 onwards have a remotely exploitable security hole</title><url>https://semiaccurate.com/2017/05/01/remote-security-exploit-2008-intel-platforms/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>na85</author><text>Credibility issues of the author&#x2F;website aside, I actually hope this is true, and I hope it&#x27;s catastrophic for Intel.<p>Maybe then we&#x27;ll finally see hardware companies taking security seriously.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tomku</author><text>Is there a better source for this than SemiAccurate? The article doesn&#x27;t really have much beyond self-aggrandizement and &quot;we can&#x27;t tell you any details, but you&#x27;re screwed&quot;. For something that could be anything from &quot;Charlie Demerjian heard a rumor about a ME patch and wanted some pageviews&quot; to the actual security apocalypse, I&#x27;d like credible sources.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel platforms from 2008 onwards have a remotely exploitable security hole</title><url>https://semiaccurate.com/2017/05/01/remote-security-exploit-2008-intel-platforms/</url></story> |
32,358,230 | 32,355,567 | 1 | 3 | 32,354,035 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bedast</author><text>Late last year going into early this year I had to deal with ASUS RMA with my ROG Flow X13 and the dock. The dock started failing. They wanted both the laptop and the dock sent in, so I sent both in. It took a while, but they got it taken care of.<p>The only problem I ran into is apparently FedEx treated the return as a soccer ball. The sturdy packaging was very damaged, and I&#x27;m surprised the damage to the laptop and dock weren&#x27;t worse than a cracked frame, bent hinge, and cracked dock frame.<p>ASUS handled redoing the RMA without charging me anything. My assumption is they used the FedEx insurance.<p>They always re-image the device. When I got it back the second time, they forgot to remove their repair image and I had to re-image it myself. No biggie, I&#x27;m fine with that.<p>Perhaps what helped me is I&#x27;ve worked with technology for a couple of decades, including doing technical support and front line support for several years at the start of my career. I used my troubleshooting skills before even contacting ASUS and gave them all of my findings. The person I was talking to didn&#x27;t bother with trying any further troubleshooting and just requested the RMA.<p>So, while I get that talking to any system builder&#x27;s tech support and RMA can be a pain, I had a positive experience with ASUS RMA.<p>I have a friend with a recent Alienware laptop that had issues on day 1. Dell technician did a house call, basically destroyed his laptop, and left. Another friend has sworn off Dell because after several RMAs of his laptop, the warranty eventually expired and it still failed again. I don&#x27;t know many people who have had to go through RMAs of other companies. But I get the impression that, outside of business support, all of them are garbage. However, ASUS did me right.</text><parent_chain><item><author>geraldwhen</author><text>God help your soul if you need to deal with an ASUS hardware RMA. They are easily the worst PC hardware manufacturer of all, and they sell clearly damaged and broken parts as &quot;refurb.&quot;<p>They are terrible.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>The responses to this are more interesting than the device itself. It&#x27;s innovative, it&#x27;s done by a brand that has a reasonable reputation for reliability and for standing behind their products and it may well fit a niche.<p>Innovation is <i>always</i> going to be risky, and Asus stands to lose some of their credibility if the device does not hold up over time. So I&#x27;ll be more than happy to let them do their thing.<p>As for sustainability: all electronics that contain rechargeable batteries are in principle not sustainable and we all have one or more of those devices. Let the person who has never used a portable battery powered device cast the phirst phone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED</title><url>https://www.asus.com/Laptops/For-Home/Zenbook/Zenbook-17-Fold-OLED-UX9702/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fuckmeyes</author><text>They are shit in RMA but as is every other company, most service centres are outsourced. I remember I just need a droid to remove the cmos battery from my zenbook to fix some weird power on race condition that prevented the whole thing from switching on - I didn’t have the silly screwdrivers - yet they wanted to rma it for two weeks - had to literally scream down the shop unrefined - losing face - until they relented albeit with sir it won’t work but calm down you idiot we’ll try, of course it worked and I was back in a taxi 20mins later with working zenbook and my data. Still better than Acer but still shit. This was bangkok</text><parent_chain><item><author>geraldwhen</author><text>God help your soul if you need to deal with an ASUS hardware RMA. They are easily the worst PC hardware manufacturer of all, and they sell clearly damaged and broken parts as &quot;refurb.&quot;<p>They are terrible.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>The responses to this are more interesting than the device itself. It&#x27;s innovative, it&#x27;s done by a brand that has a reasonable reputation for reliability and for standing behind their products and it may well fit a niche.<p>Innovation is <i>always</i> going to be risky, and Asus stands to lose some of their credibility if the device does not hold up over time. So I&#x27;ll be more than happy to let them do their thing.<p>As for sustainability: all electronics that contain rechargeable batteries are in principle not sustainable and we all have one or more of those devices. Let the person who has never used a portable battery powered device cast the phirst phone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED</title><url>https://www.asus.com/Laptops/For-Home/Zenbook/Zenbook-17-Fold-OLED-UX9702/</url></story> |
21,739,310 | 21,739,218 | 1 | 2 | 21,738,508 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mattkevan</author><text>It’s not so much hiring people more interested in activism than their jobs, it’s that Google positioned themselves as something better than all the others. A company determined to do the right thing.<p>This naturally attracts people who are interested in making a difference and want to work somewhere that aligns with their values. You don’t go and work for somewhere like Phillip Morris or Oracle if you care about making the world a better place - and neither company would claim they’re trying to do so.<p>But Google said they were different, and it’s disillusioning to discover that somewhere you love and have worked hard for is just as evil as everywhere else - moreso as it wasn’t up-front about it.<p>And then you’re going to want to do something about it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kinkrtyavimoodh</author><text>It&#x27;s funny how much public perception is tied to the media pulse of a company. If you read comments on online boards today, you&#x27;d think Google was one of the worst companies out there.<p>And yet, I think it is safe to say that Google basically defined the post-dot-com-bubble era, in a good way. So many things that comprise &#x27;company culture&#x27; today and that have been emulated (whether willingly or out of pressure to stay competitive to other companies in the hiring market) by tech and non-tech companies around the world were pioneered by Google. Anyone who has actually worked in other industries will attest how much a breath of fresh air Google brought to corporate life. It&#x27;s a separate matter how some of it is coming back to bite them now that they have hired too many people who are more interested in activism than doing their job.<p>So many of Larry&#x27;s and Sergey&#x27;s ideas were truly about organizing the world&#x27;s information. That vision statement wasn&#x27;t just words. It affected how Google and Googlers thought of things. My favorite example is Google Books. Is it an obvious ad-funnel? I doubt it. Or Google Street Maps, for that matter. And yet it has provided so much value to the world.<p>It&#x27;s almost never a good idea to make gods out of people. But it is at the same time a terrible idea to make absolute demons out of them. And I think we stray too much into the latter territory just because it has become fashionable to shit on Google for the tiniest of things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Larry and Sergey: A Valediction</title><url>http://www.roughtype.com/?p=8661</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>garaetjjte</author><text>&gt;My favorite example is Google Books.<p>It is sad that we could have millions of books searchable and publicly available, but it got shot down in publishers and authors guilds litigation crossfire :(<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;the-tragedy-of-google-books&#x2F;523320&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;the-t...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>kinkrtyavimoodh</author><text>It&#x27;s funny how much public perception is tied to the media pulse of a company. If you read comments on online boards today, you&#x27;d think Google was one of the worst companies out there.<p>And yet, I think it is safe to say that Google basically defined the post-dot-com-bubble era, in a good way. So many things that comprise &#x27;company culture&#x27; today and that have been emulated (whether willingly or out of pressure to stay competitive to other companies in the hiring market) by tech and non-tech companies around the world were pioneered by Google. Anyone who has actually worked in other industries will attest how much a breath of fresh air Google brought to corporate life. It&#x27;s a separate matter how some of it is coming back to bite them now that they have hired too many people who are more interested in activism than doing their job.<p>So many of Larry&#x27;s and Sergey&#x27;s ideas were truly about organizing the world&#x27;s information. That vision statement wasn&#x27;t just words. It affected how Google and Googlers thought of things. My favorite example is Google Books. Is it an obvious ad-funnel? I doubt it. Or Google Street Maps, for that matter. And yet it has provided so much value to the world.<p>It&#x27;s almost never a good idea to make gods out of people. But it is at the same time a terrible idea to make absolute demons out of them. And I think we stray too much into the latter territory just because it has become fashionable to shit on Google for the tiniest of things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Larry and Sergey: A Valediction</title><url>http://www.roughtype.com/?p=8661</url></story> |
23,597,682 | 23,597,720 | 1 | 2 | 23,597,294 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jackalx</author><text>I&#x27;m using this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digitalocean.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;tools&#x2F;nginx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digitalocean.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;tools&#x2F;nginx</a> that I find it pretty good</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nginx UI – Access and modify the Nginx configurations files without CLI</title><url>https://github.com/schenkd/nginx-ui</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Thorentis</author><text>Looks basically like a web-based text-editor. More effort needs to be put into adding UI controls for modifying common settings, or at least some macros for adding settings to a config file. (e.g. insert a common setting at cursor location). Better yet, hide editing the config file in an &quot;advanced&quot; mode, and allow UI controls (checkboxes, input boxes, and dropdowns) for editing parts of the config. (that&#x27;s what I thought this was going to be).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nginx UI – Access and modify the Nginx configurations files without CLI</title><url>https://github.com/schenkd/nginx-ui</url></story> |
31,922,108 | 31,919,661 | 1 | 2 | 31,905,218 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shanusmagnus</author><text>Once in grad school I went to a talk where another grad student was presenting on his fear research with mice. Many powerpoint details unfold of the hell he and his advisor had contrived to make the mice chronically afraid, and to be able to quantify the fear induced and its effects. I learned that when mice get scared enough they shit excessively. In the presentation of results he lingers on a graph, and says, for effect: &quot;That&#x27;s right, they were scared shitless.&quot;<p>Hilarity. The room bubbles with laughter. Just enough transgression.<p>I remember in that moment bubbling with rage. A famous and well-regarded paragon of the field [1] who had recently come to the university to give a talk spent his career characterizing animal emotions, especially of mice and rats. He revealed their rich emotional worlds in glorious detail. The presentor, his advisor, many of us in the department knew -- or should have -- how un-funny the joke was. We were perfectly positioned to know it.<p>Despite knowing what I knew, I didn&#x27;t say anything. That silence is still among the top few of my regrets. I guess I learned the weight of doing the right thing in a packed room full of people with contrary opinions, and learned that I was way less strong &#x2F; bold &#x2F; principled than I had believed myself to be; which was remarkable, as that bar was already low.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jaak_Panksepp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jaak_Panksepp</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>h2odragon</author><text>One of the worst jobs i ever had, occasionally required us to drown some mice. Excess population &#x2F; euthanized &quot;feeders&quot; for pet snakes. The method was to put several mice into a small wire cage, and then submerge the cage in water. Usually I filled a bucket with hot water, beforehand, and made this operation fast as possible. Dunk and done.<p>One day I came across a cow orker attempting to do this job (I had been busy and it was usually my task); they&#x27;d put the cage in the sink and were gradually filling the basin with cold water, mice swimming and grasping each other and etc. Panic and horror. Nasty.<p>Somehow, one mother mouse wound up on top of the pile, holding one almost weaned baby. As the water passed her knees she stood up and held the baby over her head. Prepared to die and use every moment left keeping the kid alive.<p>I had to adopt her and her baby after seeing that. They were never exceptional as pet mice but I still feel good about saving those two.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell?</title><url>https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/mouse-heaven-or-mouse-hell</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>michaelgrafl</author><text>Fucking hell did I just read?<p>I&#x27;ve just read Flowers for Algernon again a few weeks ago. Don&#x27;t pull my heart strings like that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>h2odragon</author><text>One of the worst jobs i ever had, occasionally required us to drown some mice. Excess population &#x2F; euthanized &quot;feeders&quot; for pet snakes. The method was to put several mice into a small wire cage, and then submerge the cage in water. Usually I filled a bucket with hot water, beforehand, and made this operation fast as possible. Dunk and done.<p>One day I came across a cow orker attempting to do this job (I had been busy and it was usually my task); they&#x27;d put the cage in the sink and were gradually filling the basin with cold water, mice swimming and grasping each other and etc. Panic and horror. Nasty.<p>Somehow, one mother mouse wound up on top of the pile, holding one almost weaned baby. As the water passed her knees she stood up and held the baby over her head. Prepared to die and use every moment left keeping the kid alive.<p>I had to adopt her and her baby after seeing that. They were never exceptional as pet mice but I still feel good about saving those two.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell?</title><url>https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/mouse-heaven-or-mouse-hell</url></story> |
33,098,696 | 33,097,061 | 1 | 2 | 33,096,540 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>expensive_news</author><text>For what it’s worth I was also unable to reproduce this. I’ve tried scanning but not clicking, AirDropping, iMessage, adding to Photos library, getting the url from Photos library… nothing triggered as a page visit.<p>Relatedly, searching for the url in my photos library does not return the picture as a result, indicating that the scanning is not being used for indexing currently. I was trying to test with other QR codes that I happened to have in my photos library, but every one of them has the website name in the picture.<p>I will keep the files on my computer and continue monitoring but I am becoming very skeptical of the Twitter thread author’s methodology.</text><parent_chain><item><author>joshstrange</author><text>Other thread on this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33095608" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33095608</a><p>My comment from there:<p>I&#x27;ll be interested to see if anyone else can reproduce this. I created a request bin [0], then created a QR code pointing at it, then downloaded that QR code. I&#x27;m not sure how often this &quot;image scanning&quot; is supposed to occur but just downloading it didn&#x27;t cause a hit nor did the 10min I waited, nor did using QuickLook, nor opening it Preview, nor scanning it with my iPhone, the only thing that caused a request was clicking on the detected link in my iPhone camera app.
Obviously if this is a background daemon that runs periodically then my test wouldn&#x27;t catch it (unless I got &quot;lucky&quot;) and for a longer-term test I&#x27;d probably want to use something other than request bin. That said request bin says it keeps bins for 48 hours so that might be enough time.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;requestbin.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;requestbin.io&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>QR code images in macOS are silently executed in the background hours/days later</title><url>https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1577674380133269504</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bobviolier</author><text>The original twitter threads talks about &quot;a couple of days ago&quot;.. so that it didn&#x27;t do it in 10 minutes, is not that surprising. Also not sure if your 48 hours will be enough if I go from the original thread from the person who found the issue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>joshstrange</author><text>Other thread on this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33095608" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33095608</a><p>My comment from there:<p>I&#x27;ll be interested to see if anyone else can reproduce this. I created a request bin [0], then created a QR code pointing at it, then downloaded that QR code. I&#x27;m not sure how often this &quot;image scanning&quot; is supposed to occur but just downloading it didn&#x27;t cause a hit nor did the 10min I waited, nor did using QuickLook, nor opening it Preview, nor scanning it with my iPhone, the only thing that caused a request was clicking on the detected link in my iPhone camera app.
Obviously if this is a background daemon that runs periodically then my test wouldn&#x27;t catch it (unless I got &quot;lucky&quot;) and for a longer-term test I&#x27;d probably want to use something other than request bin. That said request bin says it keeps bins for 48 hours so that might be enough time.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;requestbin.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;requestbin.io&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>QR code images in macOS are silently executed in the background hours/days later</title><url>https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1577674380133269504</url></story> |
36,605,488 | 36,603,714 | 1 | 2 | 36,600,263 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>btown</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.princeton.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;archive&#x2F;fall19&#x2F;cos226&#x2F;lectures&#x2F;54RegularExpressions.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.princeton.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;archive&#x2F;fall19&#x2F;cos226&#x2F;l...</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kean.blog&#x2F;post&#x2F;lets-build-regex" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kean.blog&#x2F;post&#x2F;lets-build-regex</a> are excellent introductions to implementing a (very) simplified regex engine: construct a nondetermistic finite state automaton for the regex, then perform a graph search on the resulting digraph; if the vertex corresponding to your end state is reachable, you have a match.<p>I think this exercise is valuable for anyone writing regexes to not only understand that there&#x27;s less magic than one might think, but also to visualize a bunch of balls bouncing along an NFA - that bug you inevitably hit in production due to catastrophic backtracking now takes on a physical meaning!<p>Separately re: the OP, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;regex&#x2F;issues&#x2F;822">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;regex&#x2F;issues&#x2F;822</a> (and specifically BurntSushi&#x27;s comment at the very end of the issue) adds really useful context to the paragraph in the OP about niche APIs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.burntsushi.net&#x2F;regex-internals&#x2F;#problem-requests-for-niche-apis" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.burntsushi.net&#x2F;regex-internals&#x2F;#problem-request...</a> - searching with multiple regexes simultaneously against a text is both incredibly complex and incredibly useful, and I can&#x27;t wait to see what the community comes up with for this pattern!</text><parent_chain><item><author>jjice</author><text>I&#x27;ve only given a quick read&#x2F;skim, but this is extremely impressive. BurntSushi has a lot of create stuff out there, but the Rust regex crate is legendary. The fact that Rust has had such a performant and easy to use regular expression library for so long is a real treat to the community.<p>This article as a whole is also a treasure. There&#x27;s a fairly limited number of people who have written a ton about regular expressions, but they all do so extremely well. Russ Cox&#x27;s article series (as mentioned in this one) is really great. I used it in college to write a regular expression engine one summer after I had started to fall in love with the perfect cross between theory and practice that regular expressions are.<p>The changes for more in depth testing here are also very interesting, especially for a crate that I&#x27;m sure if critical so a lot of the ecosystem, and I appreciate the writeup on such a deep dive topic.<p>Are regular expressions hard to read? Sometimes they can, especially if you haven&#x27;t gone out of your way to take deep dives. Are they not perfect for a lot of parsing tasks? Sure, there are definitely things people shouldn&#x27;t use regexs for that they do, like validating emails. At their core though, regular expressions are one of the most power dense tools we have in pretty much every language. The insane stuff you can get done (sometimes in a way that would be frowned upon) in so little time if just incredible.<p>I&#x27;d love for there to be more content on regular expressions as well. Right now I&#x27;m only familiar with one book that really does a great job (at a practical level), and that&#x27;s Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl. On a theory level, a lot of compiler books will talk about them to varying degrees. The Dragon Book has some good content on regular expressions at an implementation level too.<p>Does anyone have any other book recommendations for regular expressions?<p>And if BurntSushi or any other regular expression engine contributors see this, I really appreciate the effort y&#x27;all put in to building such powerful software.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Regex engine internals as a library</title><url>https://blog.burntsushi.net/regex-internals/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jcranmer</author><text>&gt; Are regular expressions hard to read? Sometimes they can, especially if you haven&#x27;t gone out of your way to take deep dives. Are they not perfect for a lot of parsing tasks? Sure, there are definitely things people shouldn&#x27;t use regexs for that they do, like validating emails. At their core though, regular expressions are one of the most power dense tools we have in pretty much every language. The insane stuff you can get done (sometimes in a way that would be frowned upon) in so little time if just incredible.<p>The real crowning use case for regular expressions (at least in terms of parsing-like tasks) is when you&#x27;ve got formats with varied delimiters. So one format I was parsing this weekend was basically header:field1,field2,field3&quot;data&quot;hash (with a fixed number of fields). Or another format I work with is suite~split&#x2F;test1,test2@opt1:opt2^hw1^hw2#flags1#flags2 (most of the elements of which are optional). Regular expressions shine here; using primitives like split don&#x27;t quite cut it in these formats.<p>And I think this also is a major cause of why regular expressions tend to become unreadable quickly. If you look at parsing via regular expressions as a whole, there&#x27;s basically three things that are being jammed into one expression: what are the delimiters between fields, what is valid in each field, and which fields are optional. These are basically three separate concerns, but most regex APIs are absolutely terrible at letting you separate these concerns into separate steps (all you can do is provide the string that combines all of them).</text><parent_chain><item><author>jjice</author><text>I&#x27;ve only given a quick read&#x2F;skim, but this is extremely impressive. BurntSushi has a lot of create stuff out there, but the Rust regex crate is legendary. The fact that Rust has had such a performant and easy to use regular expression library for so long is a real treat to the community.<p>This article as a whole is also a treasure. There&#x27;s a fairly limited number of people who have written a ton about regular expressions, but they all do so extremely well. Russ Cox&#x27;s article series (as mentioned in this one) is really great. I used it in college to write a regular expression engine one summer after I had started to fall in love with the perfect cross between theory and practice that regular expressions are.<p>The changes for more in depth testing here are also very interesting, especially for a crate that I&#x27;m sure if critical so a lot of the ecosystem, and I appreciate the writeup on such a deep dive topic.<p>Are regular expressions hard to read? Sometimes they can, especially if you haven&#x27;t gone out of your way to take deep dives. Are they not perfect for a lot of parsing tasks? Sure, there are definitely things people shouldn&#x27;t use regexs for that they do, like validating emails. At their core though, regular expressions are one of the most power dense tools we have in pretty much every language. The insane stuff you can get done (sometimes in a way that would be frowned upon) in so little time if just incredible.<p>I&#x27;d love for there to be more content on regular expressions as well. Right now I&#x27;m only familiar with one book that really does a great job (at a practical level), and that&#x27;s Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl. On a theory level, a lot of compiler books will talk about them to varying degrees. The Dragon Book has some good content on regular expressions at an implementation level too.<p>Does anyone have any other book recommendations for regular expressions?<p>And if BurntSushi or any other regular expression engine contributors see this, I really appreciate the effort y&#x27;all put in to building such powerful software.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Regex engine internals as a library</title><url>https://blog.burntsushi.net/regex-internals/</url></story> |
23,918,752 | 23,918,479 | 1 | 2 | 23,916,821 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>egocodedinsol</author><text>Surely there&#x27;s something to learn here though. I haven&#x27;t read the original paper but a quantity that&#x27;s preserved across brain scales is either an artifact or a neat insight.<p>Your criticism reads like someone accusing economists of being outrageously misleading when they don&#x27;t sample individual households but measure macro indicators. It&#x27;s like saying Ramon y cajal was ridiculous because he couldn&#x27;t image the neuropil effectively. Or like saying early optogenetics experiments were ridiculous because who knows if you&#x27;re stimulating a neuron in a realistic manner?<p>And in any case, it&#x27;s true that synapses are comically small relative to voxel size, but we also have some reasonable information about projection patterns and synapse number from various tracer or rabies studies with which you are no doubt familiar.<p>I haven&#x27;t read the nature paper the press release is about and I&#x27;m not a huge fan of many d&#x2F;fMRI practices or derived claims. And I&#x27;ve worked with enough mammalian dwi data to be skeptical of specific connection claims. But this strikes me as a rather interesting result even if you can&#x27;t measure all the synapses at the right resolution: either the tractography method has connectivity conservation artifacts baked in, or there&#x27;s something interesting going on.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tbenst</author><text>This is outrageously misleading. To make a claim about the number of synapses between neurons based on MRI data is completely unwarranted. Voxel size (single volumetric pixel) in MRI is approximately 1mm, while synapse size is way less than a micron. You need resolution per pixel on the order of 10s of nanometers to identify synapses.<p>I wouldn’t be surprised if a dead salmon also has “equal” connectivity: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;fmrisalmon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;fmrisalmon&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brain connectivity levels are equal in all mammals, including humans: study</title><url>https://www.aftau.org/press-release---brain-connectivity---july-20-2020</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nabla9</author><text>They study macro-scale connectomes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tbenst</author><text>This is outrageously misleading. To make a claim about the number of synapses between neurons based on MRI data is completely unwarranted. Voxel size (single volumetric pixel) in MRI is approximately 1mm, while synapse size is way less than a micron. You need resolution per pixel on the order of 10s of nanometers to identify synapses.<p>I wouldn’t be surprised if a dead salmon also has “equal” connectivity: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;fmrisalmon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;fmrisalmon&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brain connectivity levels are equal in all mammals, including humans: study</title><url>https://www.aftau.org/press-release---brain-connectivity---july-20-2020</url></story> |
33,676,990 | 33,674,821 | 1 | 2 | 33,673,128 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zbentley</author><text>Not at all.<p>If I get floats from $somewhere, I might want to index them into a hash data structure without creating a huge sparse array.<p>If you assume float numbers have &quot;identity&quot; such that, whatever the precision, &quot;x == x&quot; always holds (other than NaN), then this is a perfectly valid thing to want.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bobbylarrybobby</author><text>Using floats as hash keys is insane, no?</text></item><item><author>derriz</author><text>Java has a specific hack for this which I discovered by accident a few years ago. Normally, given (primitive) double values d0 and d1, then boxing them does not affect equality testing - i.e. d0 == d1 if and only if Double.valueOf(d0).equals(Double.valueOf(d1)). However if d0 and d1 are both NaN, then the boxed versions ARE considered equal while d0 == d1 is false.<p>This inconsistency infuriated me when I discovered it but the Javadoc for Double.equals explicitly states that this anomaly is there to &quot;allow hash tables to work properly&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go 1.21 may have a clear(x) builtin</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoFutureClearBuiltin</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>metadat</author><text>Yes, why would you ever want a map with floating point keys?<p>I&#x27;m struggling to think of a valid use case where there is no better alternative.<p>Any design utilizing this language &quot;feature&quot; seems masochistic and begging to get sliced by sheet metal edges.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bobbylarrybobby</author><text>Using floats as hash keys is insane, no?</text></item><item><author>derriz</author><text>Java has a specific hack for this which I discovered by accident a few years ago. Normally, given (primitive) double values d0 and d1, then boxing them does not affect equality testing - i.e. d0 == d1 if and only if Double.valueOf(d0).equals(Double.valueOf(d1)). However if d0 and d1 are both NaN, then the boxed versions ARE considered equal while d0 == d1 is false.<p>This inconsistency infuriated me when I discovered it but the Javadoc for Double.equals explicitly states that this anomaly is there to &quot;allow hash tables to work properly&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go 1.21 may have a clear(x) builtin</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoFutureClearBuiltin</url></story> |
18,150,125 | 18,149,824 | 1 | 2 | 18,148,177 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paulsutter</author><text>Not taking a postion here, but given motivations it&#x27;s hard to know what to conclude<p>&gt; That&#x27;s not what you do when you&#x27;re trying to brush something off.<p>It &#x2F;could&#x2F; be what you do if good relations with the Chinese government are crucial to your business (true for both Apple and Amazon).<p>As for the UK NCSC, it&#x27;s bizarre that they would comment at all. One possible motivation: eagerness to discover how to use such a backdoor themselves<p>&gt; “The NCSC engages confidentially with security researchers and urges anybody with credible intelligence about these reports to contact us”</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>They&#x27;re not &quot;maintaining ignorance&quot;; they&#x27;re categorically denying it, and in significant detail. Both Apple and Amazon produced essentially <i>bulleted refutations</i> of the story. That&#x27;s not what you do when you&#x27;re trying to brush something off.</text></item><item><author>beaker52</author><text>It could also be possible that these companies are legally bound by some sort of investigation-related order to maintain ignorance to the presence of the chips and that Bloomberg have just sunk an ongoing investigation&#x2F;counter-espionage operation, potentially putting an associated intelligence network at risk.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK cyber security agency backs Apple, Amazon China hack denials</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cyber-britain/uk-cyber-security-agency-backs-apple-amazon-china-hack-denials-idUSKCN1MF1DN</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Alex3917</author><text>&gt; They&#x27;re not &quot;maintaining ignorance&quot;; they&#x27;re categorically denying it<p>What makes you think the people denying it know about it though? E.g. if the head of Apple security got served an NSL, wouldn&#x27;t that potentially prevent them from telling the company lawyers or the executive team?</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>They&#x27;re not &quot;maintaining ignorance&quot;; they&#x27;re categorically denying it, and in significant detail. Both Apple and Amazon produced essentially <i>bulleted refutations</i> of the story. That&#x27;s not what you do when you&#x27;re trying to brush something off.</text></item><item><author>beaker52</author><text>It could also be possible that these companies are legally bound by some sort of investigation-related order to maintain ignorance to the presence of the chips and that Bloomberg have just sunk an ongoing investigation&#x2F;counter-espionage operation, potentially putting an associated intelligence network at risk.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK cyber security agency backs Apple, Amazon China hack denials</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cyber-britain/uk-cyber-security-agency-backs-apple-amazon-china-hack-denials-idUSKCN1MF1DN</url></story> |
10,923,736 | 10,923,728 | 1 | 3 | 10,923,460 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lqdc13</author><text>I think it&#x27;s the other way and you need the -qO- flags.</text><parent_chain><item><author>akerro</author><text>Run:<p>sh | wget <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www...something.com&#x2F;install.sh" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www...something.com&#x2F;install.sh</a><p>to install something automatically! Way too many projects do it, from my head: rvm and oh-my-zsh.</text></item><item><author>gravypod</author><text>Running unsigned code from the internet? Have I woken up in crazy land today? When did things like this become acceptable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netboot</title><url>http://netboot.xyz/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rplnt</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget that many require you to use sudo.</text><parent_chain><item><author>akerro</author><text>Run:<p>sh | wget <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www...something.com&#x2F;install.sh" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www...something.com&#x2F;install.sh</a><p>to install something automatically! Way too many projects do it, from my head: rvm and oh-my-zsh.</text></item><item><author>gravypod</author><text>Running unsigned code from the internet? Have I woken up in crazy land today? When did things like this become acceptable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netboot</title><url>http://netboot.xyz/</url></story> |
18,063,753 | 18,063,484 | 1 | 3 | 18,057,022 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>a-dub</author><text>Interesting. I wonder how well a logistic regression that spits out masks would perform in the source separation task.<p>Also a bit surprising to see that they had to STFT the audio before feeding it into a convnet. I thought half the point of convnets was that they figure out how to do spectral domain representations on their own...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Sound of Pixels</title><url>http://sound-of-pixels.csail.mit.edu/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rflrob</author><text>I haven’t tried my hand at any machine learning, but I’m impressed that it could work with only 60 hours of training data. Perhaps the input clips were fairly short, which would increase the total number of videos.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Sound of Pixels</title><url>http://sound-of-pixels.csail.mit.edu/</url></story> |
28,853,195 | 28,852,828 | 1 | 2 | 28,852,348 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kmnc</author><text>I don’t really get this article… it seems to make a good argument that dopamine is not the be all end all of addiction. Yet then it goes on to show that it is indeed a component of addiction, yet one of which is complex and still not well understood. So in essence, all this article is doing is complaining about pop science and how we often reduce complex behaviours to singular explanations. But isn’t that just a part of being human? The article argues that people are more complex and we need to look at addiction in a more complex way.<p>However, nowhere does this article speak about the efficacy of this pop science reduction. Perhaps it is human nature to try to solve complex issues by reducing the problem to something that can be explained to a lay person, even if such explanations are incorrect.<p>Personally, as someone who struggles with gambling addiction, thinking about dopamine in this “incorrect” pop science way has been incredibly useful as a tool to help me understand irrational decision making, even if such explanations are far more complex.<p>While we do need to guard against pop science reducing complex behaviours to singular causes, I am far more interested in whether it works or not. From listening to many personal addiction stories and hearing from clinicians, this simplified understanding of dopamine seems to be of major help to many recovering addicts.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Please stop calling dopamine an addictive rewarding neurochemical (2017)</title><url>https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/women-who-stray/201701/no-dopamine-is-not-addictive</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bondarchuk</author><text>&gt;<i>So please, let’s start talking about people, rather than irrelevant neurochemicals.</i><p>Strange way to conclude an article that has quite successfully argued the relevance of dopamine in addiction. It&#x27;s good to point out how reductive the dopamine narrative is, but overly reductive is not the same as completely false.<p>I also disagree with the idea that pinpointing a neurological mechanism for a problem amounts to externalizing the problem. Maybe because the author is a psychologist, and not a neurologist, that they cling to this mind&#x2F;body divide...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Please stop calling dopamine an addictive rewarding neurochemical (2017)</title><url>https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/women-who-stray/201701/no-dopamine-is-not-addictive</url></story> |
6,925,182 | 6,925,130 | 1 | 2 | 6,924,854 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>IvyMike</author><text>Time to whip out the hairy ball theorem: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hairy_ball_theorem</a><p>Yes I heard what I just said.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A visualization of global weather conditions, forecast by supercomputers</title><url>http://earth.nullschool.net</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adolgert</author><text>The javascript shows they are thinking about this as particle traces of wind velocities. In visualization, the technique is called Line Integral Convolution (LIC). Each line follows the direction of the wind vector, and the overall brightness is the sum of the magnitude of the winds under the line. This particular variant just uses the wind speed at one point under the line. LIC won&#x27;t accidentally miss field singularities like vector-arrow representations, and there are variants that provide smooth animations.<p>It&#x27;s great that we&#x27;ve advanced from needing VTK to being able to do a visualization like this as a live movie, translating GRIB files to JSON.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A visualization of global weather conditions, forecast by supercomputers</title><url>http://earth.nullschool.net</url></story> |
8,818,750 | 8,818,560 | 1 | 3 | 8,818,376 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toolslive</author><text>I remember enjoying Abrash&#x27;s write up in the mid 90s.
<a href="http://www.phatcode.net/res/224/files/html/ch35/35-01.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phatcode.net&#x2F;res&#x2F;224&#x2F;files&#x2F;html&#x2F;ch35&#x2F;35-01.html</a>
He starts with the algorithm, then a C implementation, then optimization in ASM, only to throw it all away in the subsequent chapter because of a better algorithm. He goes through this cycle several times. Splendid educational effort on multiple levels.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Line drawing on a grid</title><url>http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/line-drawing.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lovelearning</author><text>What a stroke of luck for me! Just today I was studying line drawing techniques on a grid for a prototype related to offline mapping using polygons. It&#x27;s yet another reminder how topics and links that don&#x27;t seem relevant to my interests at first (games in this case) often turn out to be relevant to other areas of my interest.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Line drawing on a grid</title><url>http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/line-drawing.html</url></story> |
4,376,201 | 4,375,913 | 1 | 3 | 4,375,342 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alecco</author><text>EDIT: now it's completely banned, not even on 2nd page.<p>Aaaand... downgraded from front page by mods.<p><pre><code> 3.
India outsourcing back to USA (washingtonpost.com)
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Shit HN Says (twitter.com)
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8,764,496 | 8,764,304 | 1 | 2 | 8,762,871 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WildUtah</author><text>Physicians per capita figures are misleading.<p>The US figure reflects very long careers; late retirements; investment in large teams of trauma specialists due to high war, car crash, and gunshot wound rates; a high percentage of women physicians working part time; and a high concentration of expensive specialists with no documentation that they improve outcomes and paid for by large federal government subsidies.<p>The actual amount of primary physician and general surgery time available to Americans is very low compared to other countries with similar numbers of doctors. Most countries also allow as many as half the cases administered by fully licensed doctors with 12-20 years of post-secondary schooling in the USA to be handled by nurses and pharmacists. Prescriptions for sniffles or heartburn, basic non-controlled medications, simple physical assessments, and vaccinations are handled by professionals the USA would consider nurses or pharmacists or unlicensed assistants in most first world countries. In the USA those jobs take the time of physicians.<p>And that is the top reason, among many other unrelated ones, that health care is so much more expensive in the USA. US doctors are fewer and have more responsibilities and thus must be paid extraordinarily to work very long hours and not retire at the usual ages or else some must go without care. It&#x27;s not an accident; medical societies have blocked medical school expansion for decades until recently as the population grew.<p>Cuba, on the other hand, appears to be counting nurse practitioners as physicians. That&#x27;s fine to do because they&#x27;re highly qualified, but it makes the numbers not comparable across countries.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xyahoo</author><text>On the other hand:<p>- average life expectancy in Cuba is almost the same as the USA (and higher than Mexico, Belize, Bahamas, Brazil, etc.).<p>- literacy rate in Cuba is higher than that in the USA<p>- Physicians per 10,000 people: Cuba has 67, USA has 24<p>In the Ebola crisis, Cuba has been leading from the front.</text></item><item><author>iandanforth</author><text>I&#x27;ve visited Cuba on a Canadian passport. Aside from the beautiful beaches the thing that struck me most was the desperate poverty of people living in shacks outside the 5 star resorts.<p>While I hesitate to predict that this change will be all for the good, I do believe that the poorest in Cuba will benefit significantly from increased trade.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cuba and the U.S. will begin to normalize relations</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-17/obama-to-announce-u-s-cuba-relations-shift-as-gross-is-released.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scardine</author><text>I highly recommend reading &quot;Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot&quot; which explain how dictatorships can pick a handful of indicators and elevate them to first-world levels while still making everybody&#x27;s life miserable.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Perfect-Latin-American-Idiot/product-reviews/156833236X" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Guide-Perfect-Latin-American-Idiot&#x2F;pro...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>xyahoo</author><text>On the other hand:<p>- average life expectancy in Cuba is almost the same as the USA (and higher than Mexico, Belize, Bahamas, Brazil, etc.).<p>- literacy rate in Cuba is higher than that in the USA<p>- Physicians per 10,000 people: Cuba has 67, USA has 24<p>In the Ebola crisis, Cuba has been leading from the front.</text></item><item><author>iandanforth</author><text>I&#x27;ve visited Cuba on a Canadian passport. Aside from the beautiful beaches the thing that struck me most was the desperate poverty of people living in shacks outside the 5 star resorts.<p>While I hesitate to predict that this change will be all for the good, I do believe that the poorest in Cuba will benefit significantly from increased trade.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cuba and the U.S. will begin to normalize relations</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-17/obama-to-announce-u-s-cuba-relations-shift-as-gross-is-released.html</url></story> |
25,970,239 | 25,970,310 | 1 | 3 | 25,956,652 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CharlesW</author><text>&gt; <i>I&#x27;m not into web design but I think the core problem here is lack of accepted terminology and even awareness that this type of font is a thing.</i><p>It seems useful to name the property where character widths are consistent along their weight axis, but another case in point to support the sibling comment: I see only one other significant use of &quot;uniwidth&quot;[1], from 2015.<p>I also find &quot;uniwidth&quot; a poor and confusing name for this property, and &quot;duplexed&quot; and &quot;multiplexed&quot; even worse.<p>If I had to suggest a better alternative, I think something like &quot;width-invariant&quot; or &quot;width-invariant proportional&quot; would be clearer.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fontshop.com&#x2F;people&#x2F;david-sudweeks&#x2F;fontlists&#x2F;uniwidth-typefaces" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fontshop.com&#x2F;people&#x2F;david-sudweeks&#x2F;fontlists&#x2F;uni...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>phkahler</author><text>&gt;&gt; The solution to this problem: “uniwidth” typefaces, sometimes also called “equal-width”, “duplexed” or “multiplexed” typefaces. And no, I am not talking about monospaced fonts here.<p>I&#x27;m not into web design but I think the core problem here is lack of accepted terminology and even awareness that this type of font is a thing.<p>The article certainly brings awareness to something I didn&#x27;t know is a thing but seems very useful.<p>My mind wants to say &quot;weight invariant&quot; or &quot;style invariant&quot; but those suggest the thing doesnt look any different rather than just the size not changing with other characteristics.<p>It&#x27;s probably obvious that I don&#x27;t like &quot;uniwidth&quot;, but at the moment I can&#x27;t think of anything better that isn&#x27;t super wordy, like &quot;font with style invariant width&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uniwidth Typefaces for Interface Design</title><url>https://uxdesign.cc/uniwidth-typefaces-for-interface-design-b6e8078dc0f7</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joshxyz</author><text>Yep I initially thought &quot;uniwidth&quot; is synonymous with &quot;monospaced&quot; fonts.<p>But these uniwidth fonts can have Sans and Mono variants like Recursive[0], so methinks these could&#x27;ve been just called what they are: &quot;no-reflow&quot; fonts? lol<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.recursive.design&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.recursive.design&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>phkahler</author><text>&gt;&gt; The solution to this problem: “uniwidth” typefaces, sometimes also called “equal-width”, “duplexed” or “multiplexed” typefaces. And no, I am not talking about monospaced fonts here.<p>I&#x27;m not into web design but I think the core problem here is lack of accepted terminology and even awareness that this type of font is a thing.<p>The article certainly brings awareness to something I didn&#x27;t know is a thing but seems very useful.<p>My mind wants to say &quot;weight invariant&quot; or &quot;style invariant&quot; but those suggest the thing doesnt look any different rather than just the size not changing with other characteristics.<p>It&#x27;s probably obvious that I don&#x27;t like &quot;uniwidth&quot;, but at the moment I can&#x27;t think of anything better that isn&#x27;t super wordy, like &quot;font with style invariant width&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uniwidth Typefaces for Interface Design</title><url>https://uxdesign.cc/uniwidth-typefaces-for-interface-design-b6e8078dc0f7</url></story> |
38,347,889 | 38,347,921 | 1 | 2 | 38,342,670 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>southerntofu</author><text>&gt; &quot;As far as I know there&#x27;s a sizeable number of devs who don&#x27;t intend to ever rely on copilot&quot;<p>I&#x27;m one of those. I&#x27;ve been programming for a while now and there&#x27;s no way i&#x27;m gonna trust a neural network with my code. Debugging is painful enough without having to deal with subtle bugs hallucinated by ML.<p>Some machines are really useful to reduce human suffering and augment our collective capabilities. Some machines are just useless, polluting gadgets. I think ML sits in the middleground: if your job is pissing meaningless code all day that&#x27;s very repetitive it can probably do it for you... but if you have to actually do R&amp;D to develop new tools i don&#x27;t think ML will be any use.<p>So yes AI can reduce work, but arguably work that was never required nor beneficial to humanity to begin with. I would be way more interested in society reflecting on &quot;bullshit jobs&quot; and how to actually share the workload so that we can have 1-day work-weeks planet-wide, just as the scientists from the 19th&#x2F;20th century envisioned. Instead of continuing to destroy the planet so we can run bullshitting neural nets in the cloud that produce arguably little value.<p>But sure, ML is fun. Let&#x27;s just pretend we don&#x27;t see the whole world burning outside the window.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hutzlibu</author><text>&quot;As far as I know there&#x27;s a sizeable number of devs who don&#x27;t intend to ever rely on copilot&quot;<p>Is that really a thing?<p>I mean, I also don&#x27;t want to rely on Microsoft and therefore also not on Copilot, but not using AI tools in general out of principle is probably a very rare minority. I simply would prefer my own local LLM.<p>But in the thread linked above I read &quot;AI never had and never will have it’s place in art.&quot; And this stance would be very weird for me for devs.</text></item><item><author>makeitdouble</author><text>Is it that different from how we view Github copilot ?<p>As far as I know there&#x27;s a sizeable number of devs who don&#x27;t intend to ever rely on copilot, and I would expect the a similar trend in the drawing community with amateurs and pros not specially anti-AI, but not wanting to have a random generator meddle with their art.</text></item><item><author>raincole</author><text>I think at one point Krita will fork to two apps because of this exact reason. AI-based tools are clearly the next step of painting apps (to me at least, but I can&#x27;t be the only one who believes in this).<p>I think in 3~5 years an painting app without AI generation feature is just like a painting app without pen pressure today. It&#x27;s still usable, you can make great art with it if you have the skill, but it will be <i>so</i> out of fashion to a point it starts becoming cool again.</text></item><item><author>hafriedlander</author><text>Somewhat tangential, but the Krita community and core team have been pretty explicitly anti-AI. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krita-artists.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;change-in-policy-for-topics-related-to-generative-ai-tools-on-krita-artists&#x2F;75230" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krita-artists.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;change-in-policy-for-topics-rela...</a><p>(I am part of a group that builds UI on top of open models, but we stopped working on our Krita version for that reason.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Krita AI Diffusion</title><url>https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lionkor</author><text>Yes, that&#x27;s a thing, I&#x27;m one of those people.<p>While impressive, the two issues I have with codepilot and other AI tools are:<p>1. The code is usually the same code I&#x27;d get a few web searches away, except then it would have the appropriate copyright. As a FOSS developer (in my free time), I do not want to risk using code I don&#x27;t have a license for, and thus dirtying up my entire project and putting it in danger of being taken down.<p>2. I really don&#x27;t need it. At very few points in a project do I both think &quot;I want to continue this&quot; and also &quot;I want my code written for me&quot;. I like autocomplete, I use autocomplete, and I like Visual Studio&#x27;s suggestions, too. It&#x27;s only wrong 50% of the time, around about. I have no interest in a tool that writes my code for me, because I have learned everything I know from solving problems myself.<p>Edit: Clauses in the AI&#x27;s ToS like &quot;all code generated is yours&quot; or something is akin to a sign on a bar saying &quot;if you hit someone in here it&#x27;s not assault&quot; -- it doesn&#x27;t change the facts whatsoever, and the fact is that it&#x27;s still a crime to hit somebody, even if the bar&#x27;s ToS say otherwise.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hutzlibu</author><text>&quot;As far as I know there&#x27;s a sizeable number of devs who don&#x27;t intend to ever rely on copilot&quot;<p>Is that really a thing?<p>I mean, I also don&#x27;t want to rely on Microsoft and therefore also not on Copilot, but not using AI tools in general out of principle is probably a very rare minority. I simply would prefer my own local LLM.<p>But in the thread linked above I read &quot;AI never had and never will have it’s place in art.&quot; And this stance would be very weird for me for devs.</text></item><item><author>makeitdouble</author><text>Is it that different from how we view Github copilot ?<p>As far as I know there&#x27;s a sizeable number of devs who don&#x27;t intend to ever rely on copilot, and I would expect the a similar trend in the drawing community with amateurs and pros not specially anti-AI, but not wanting to have a random generator meddle with their art.</text></item><item><author>raincole</author><text>I think at one point Krita will fork to two apps because of this exact reason. AI-based tools are clearly the next step of painting apps (to me at least, but I can&#x27;t be the only one who believes in this).<p>I think in 3~5 years an painting app without AI generation feature is just like a painting app without pen pressure today. It&#x27;s still usable, you can make great art with it if you have the skill, but it will be <i>so</i> out of fashion to a point it starts becoming cool again.</text></item><item><author>hafriedlander</author><text>Somewhat tangential, but the Krita community and core team have been pretty explicitly anti-AI. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krita-artists.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;change-in-policy-for-topics-related-to-generative-ai-tools-on-krita-artists&#x2F;75230" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krita-artists.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;change-in-policy-for-topics-rela...</a><p>(I am part of a group that builds UI on top of open models, but we stopped working on our Krita version for that reason.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Krita AI Diffusion</title><url>https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion</url></story> |
24,441,854 | 24,439,531 | 1 | 2 | 24,430,492 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajuc</author><text>Logic tables are a secret weapon when refactoring spaghetti code.<p>You take all the conditions relevant to the part you&#x27;re refactoring.<p>You refactor common parts of the conditions (so if one if has (x&gt;3 &amp; y&lt;2) and another if has (x&gt;3 and y&gt;10) you get (x&gt;3), (y&lt;2), (y&gt;10).<p>You put that into a table, write all possible values that can happen (sounds like combinatoric explosion but it&#x27;s usually not, because many of them depend on each other and lots of combinations cannot happen or aren&#x27;t relevant to the result) - then rewrite the whole thing looking at the table.<p><pre><code> x&gt;3 | y&lt;2 | y&gt;10 | effect
F | F | F | ...
T | F | F | ...
F | T | F | ...
T | T | F | ...
F | F | T | ...
T | F | T | ...
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Another form is<p><pre><code> x | y | effect
&lt;3 | &lt;2 | ...
&gt;=3 | &lt;2 | ...
&lt;3 | 2...10 | ...
&gt;=3 | 2...10 | ...
&lt;3 | &gt;10 | ...
&gt;=3 | &gt;10 | ...
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Usually if the code is old enough there&#x27;s redundant branches, checking conditions that can&#x27;t happen, duplicated code &quot;just in case&quot;, etc.<p>With the table you can look at it and see input-output and refactor it without worrying about changing behaviour.<p>For simple cases it&#x27;s overkill, but with big enough mess it&#x27;s a life-saver.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Decision Table Patterns</title><url>https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/decision-table-patterns/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aszen</author><text>Decision table&#x27;s are really good at representing complex rules, in a language with pattern matching u can convert a nested if else block to a decision table that is much more readable, as an example see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;finos&#x2F;morphir-examples&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;Morphir&#x2F;Sample&#x2F;Rules&#x2F;Direct.elm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;finos&#x2F;morphir-examples&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;Mo...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Decision Table Patterns</title><url>https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/decision-table-patterns/</url></story> |
5,335,577 | 5,335,199 | 1 | 3 | 5,334,186 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pdeuchler</author><text>I know you're trying to be a realist about this, but there's honestly no excuse for backing down on your morals.<p>We are not <i>CONSTITUTIONALLY</i> at war with any nation. In fact, we are not even in the process of congressionally (i.e. <i>CONSTITUTIONALLY</i>) authorized military engagements.<p>So, then. If we are proper citizens of this Earth and respect the rights of our fellow man, who we all believe to be equal, do we allow the use of pre-emptive force, even non-lethal, outside of our borders?<p>I honestly don't see any other answer than an emphatic "No". Any other answer leads down a slippery slope, no matter the incline (if you will). I don't plan on supporting any slippery slope that I'm standing at the bottom of.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Rand Paul asked a stupid question†† of Eric Holder, one of the top lawyers in the USG, and received a predictably stupid answer. That question, distilled: "is there any conceivable situation in which drones could be used to attack US citizens on US soil'. How could the answer to that question be anything but yes? All you have to do is imagine a far-fetched scenario in which an al Qaeda terrorist who happens to be a US citizen is going to kill hundreds of Americans, imminently, but for an intervention that will only be effective via drone strike.<p>A simpler way to frame this that hundreds of people have now pointed out, which has the helpful property of extracting the scary alien new "drones"† from the equation: the authority Holder is claiming for the administration is the same as the one that would allow them to down a jetliner hurtling towards the Sears Tower: an intervention only available to the military.<p>There were good questions available to Rand Paul before he decided to prematurely declare victory over common sense. Two I can come up with:<p>* Does the administration claim the right to use military resources to attack US citizens on US soil if compelling evidence exists that they are al Qaeda terrorist when no specific evidence exists that such a person plans to imminently attack the US? Can the US use an airstrike against an al Qaeda terrorist who is a US citizen simply to keep them from "getting away"?<p>* Does the administration claim the right to use airstrikes against al Qaeda terrorists of any nationality when a reasonable person could infer a likelihood that such a strike would cause harm to Americans in the vicinity of the strike?<p>There are more good questions, I'm sure. "Could there ever be a case when..." is literally the "ticking time bomb" question; the dumbest of all questions.<p>† <i>Scared kids in combat boots with M16s have done far more damage to innocent lives, both at home and abroad, than drones will ever do; drones are often a way of affecting concern for the lives of people 'like us' while ignoring the safety of civilians and servicemembers on the ground.</i><p>†† <i>"What stupid question?" This one: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5335285" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5335285</a> </i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rand Paul filibustering over drones</title><url>http://washingtonexaminer.com/rand-paul-filibustering-over-drones-i-will-not-let-obama-shred-the-constitution/article/2523425</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Lost_BiomedE</author><text>Personally, even in your far-fetched scenario, I would prefer a 'no'. It would have to be much further far-fetched for the only answer to that threat to be a drone.<p>Should we arm some in air drones for such a scenario? All sorts of slippery slope. The answer should just be a no.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Rand Paul asked a stupid question†† of Eric Holder, one of the top lawyers in the USG, and received a predictably stupid answer. That question, distilled: "is there any conceivable situation in which drones could be used to attack US citizens on US soil'. How could the answer to that question be anything but yes? All you have to do is imagine a far-fetched scenario in which an al Qaeda terrorist who happens to be a US citizen is going to kill hundreds of Americans, imminently, but for an intervention that will only be effective via drone strike.<p>A simpler way to frame this that hundreds of people have now pointed out, which has the helpful property of extracting the scary alien new "drones"† from the equation: the authority Holder is claiming for the administration is the same as the one that would allow them to down a jetliner hurtling towards the Sears Tower: an intervention only available to the military.<p>There were good questions available to Rand Paul before he decided to prematurely declare victory over common sense. Two I can come up with:<p>* Does the administration claim the right to use military resources to attack US citizens on US soil if compelling evidence exists that they are al Qaeda terrorist when no specific evidence exists that such a person plans to imminently attack the US? Can the US use an airstrike against an al Qaeda terrorist who is a US citizen simply to keep them from "getting away"?<p>* Does the administration claim the right to use airstrikes against al Qaeda terrorists of any nationality when a reasonable person could infer a likelihood that such a strike would cause harm to Americans in the vicinity of the strike?<p>There are more good questions, I'm sure. "Could there ever be a case when..." is literally the "ticking time bomb" question; the dumbest of all questions.<p>† <i>Scared kids in combat boots with M16s have done far more damage to innocent lives, both at home and abroad, than drones will ever do; drones are often a way of affecting concern for the lives of people 'like us' while ignoring the safety of civilians and servicemembers on the ground.</i><p>†† <i>"What stupid question?" This one: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5335285" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5335285</a> </i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rand Paul filibustering over drones</title><url>http://washingtonexaminer.com/rand-paul-filibustering-over-drones-i-will-not-let-obama-shred-the-constitution/article/2523425</url></story> |
28,426,312 | 28,426,546 | 1 | 3 | 28,423,029 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Fang_</author><text>&gt; Black to move, and in the final position, the pawn at h4 can be captured en-passant.<p>&gt; They&#x27;re all legal.<p>But then, looking at the final position[1], black is in check by the knight on b2. If white&#x27;s pawn can be captured en passant, this implies the knight was not the most recent move, so the black king was in check on the previous turn as well.<p>It&#x27;s obviously not legal to remain in check. What am I missing?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;tromp&#x2F;ChessPositionRanking&#x2F;72608cf14906b989753024810fc642142605cca5&#x2F;img&#x2F;8686186724060380137654941364776065067846290128.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;tromp&#x2F;ChessPositionRanking...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The number of legal chess positions estimated at 4.5x10^44 – proof games wanted</title><url>https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheDudeMan</author><text>This is pretty interesting, too. Linked in the README:<p>Number of legal Go positions
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tromp.github.io&#x2F;go&#x2F;legal.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tromp.github.io&#x2F;go&#x2F;legal.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The number of legal chess positions estimated at 4.5x10^44 – proof games wanted</title><url>https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking</url></story> |
34,106,323 | 34,104,052 | 1 | 2 | 34,103,142 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kaba0</author><text>While it is an informative article, I fail to be convinced that wasm is somehow superior (even for its current role).<p>Validation is faster due to it being structured, but stackmaps make it fast for class files as well. It is lower level, but is that really a good thing? It is quite trivial to just assign a huge ‘long’ array to some jvm byte code for the same result, and while I will look at the linked GC proposal, because haven’t been kept up-to-date on that, I think having a good GC is the single most important thing, as that is much harder to do than just providing a linear array. Which will in turn decimate the implementations (or at least mark a toy vs prod ready divide).<p>Also, will that structured nature not make it a less than great compilation target? This means that certain, more niche languages will have to use ugly (and slow) hacks to get implemented. And it being lowish level it is much harder to optimize it well (in that you express the exact semantics).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WebAssembly for the Java Geek</title><url>https://www.javaadvent.com/2022/12/webassembly-for-the-java-geek.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bullen</author><text>I&#x27;m considering building a Java compatible VM that only has static memory allocation to avoid GC.<p>Why hasn&#x27;t this been done by anyone yet?<p>Also confused why this does not have a binary windows release yet: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bytecodealliance&#x2F;wasm-micro-runtime">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bytecodealliance&#x2F;wasm-micro-runtime</a><p>Edit: Epsilon is not the answer here you can stop mentioning that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WebAssembly for the Java Geek</title><url>https://www.javaadvent.com/2022/12/webassembly-for-the-java-geek.html</url></story> |
5,280,094 | 5,280,071 | 1 | 2 | 5,279,307 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>If you learn one lesson from The Great Recession, it should be that nefarious conspiracy is not necessary for horrific outcomes. You just need the correct arrangement a lot of self-focused, insufficiently thoughtful people trying to push a graph up and to the right.<p>If you talk to a chef who makes a tasty dish, they understand a lot about their influence on people's health, and the ones I know feel responsible for it. A human's evolved moral mechanisms work in that context.<p>But if you look at the property bubble and the related financial engineering, every individual had plausible deniability. They were just following orders/incentives/the market. They had no direct moral connection to the outcome of their actions, and by and large refused to think hard enough that they could see one. As Upton Sinclair said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."<p>The same applies to the modern epidemic of diabetes and obesity. The human cost of that is incredible, and we will be dealing with it for decades, possibly generations.<p>Many processed foods are engineered, and they are addictive. The way they are created, marketed, and evaluated isn't materially different that how tobacco products were made and sold. The only real difference is how society's attitude to those products has shifted.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>It's so funny how, over the past couple of years, good-tasting food is now a "conspiracy".<p>When a Michelin chef meticulously constructs a dish to give you pleasure, he's a creative genius whose dedication to his art is applauded.<p>But when the people behind Snickers do it to give you pleasure, they're nefarious conspirators trying to manipulate you and keep you addicted.<p>Yes, people who make food are trying to make it taste better, minimize their own costs, and keep you coming back. Why is this suddenly considered "news"?<p>(I mean, the article is plenty interesting, it's just the sensationalism of calling it "food engineering", "addiction", etc. that bothers me.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DanBC</author><text>Take a chicken. Roast it, with vegetables. Include some lightly steamed vegetables. Have some kind of gravy. If you really want it have some kind of honey glazing for the carrots.<p>That's a reasonably healthy meal.<p>Take the same chicken. Take as much meat off it as you can, and sell that as chicken breast etc. Mechanically recover other bits of meat from the carcass. Shape it into a tiny mouthsize bite, with salt and spices and fat and filler. Then cover it in a breadcrumb coating. Deep fry it. (That crumb coating soaks up the oils.) Serve it with a sugary-sauce. You now have something which is much cheaper than the roast chicken; it's much easier to eat; it's weirdly tasty; but it's also weirdly not satisfying.<p>And the reason this is done is not to create the best tasting food possible (the motivation behind Michelin starred chefs) but to cuts costs while getting people to buy more. They don't care about the pleasure you get - they only want your money.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>It's so funny how, over the past couple of years, good-tasting food is now a "conspiracy".<p>When a Michelin chef meticulously constructs a dish to give you pleasure, he's a creative genius whose dedication to his art is applauded.<p>But when the people behind Snickers do it to give you pleasure, they're nefarious conspirators trying to manipulate you and keep you addicted.<p>Yes, people who make food are trying to make it taste better, minimize their own costs, and keep you coming back. Why is this suddenly considered "news"?<p>(I mean, the article is plenty interesting, it's just the sensationalism of calling it "food engineering", "addiction", etc. that bothers me.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0</url></story> |
15,091,076 | 15,090,387 | 1 | 3 | 15,084,728 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>funkjunky</author><text>(GCP support here)
This is a known bug, I&#x27;ve worked at least a few cases where this happened. There is a feature coming out soon that will allow different maintenance schedules to be set for masters&#x2F;replicas, which will likely be automatically set for different times. And, once the kinks get worked out, hopefully we&#x27;ll be able to re-deploy the feature that shifted traffic to failovers while the master is being updated, and eliminating maintenance downtime altogether.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ciguy</author><text>As a DevOps consultant I&#x27;ve actually worked with clients migrating stacks to and from GCE&#x2F;AWS (Yeah, both ways, not the same client).<p>What I&#x27;ve found in aggregate is that GCE is a bit easier to use at first as AWS has a LOT of features and terminology to learn. When it comes down to it though, many GCE services felt really immature, particularly their CloudSQL offering.<p>One client recently moved from GCE to AWS simply because their CloudSQL (Fully replicated with fail-over setup according to GCE recommendations) kept randomly dying for several minutes at a time. After a LOT of back and forth Google finally admitted that they had updated the replica and the master at the same time, so when it failed over the replica was also down.<p>There were other instances of unexplained downtime that were never adequately explained, but overall that experience was enough for me (And the client) to totally lose faith in the GCE teams competence. Even getting a serious investigation into intermittent downtime and an explanation took over a month. By that time our migration to AWS was in progress.<p>GCE never did explain why they would choose to apply updates to replica + master SQL at the same time and as far as I know they are still doing this. I asked if we could at least be notified of update events, was told that&#x27;s not possible.<p>There were other issues as well that taken together just made GCE seem amateurish. I&#x27;m sure as they mature a bit things will get better, and it is cheaper which is why I wouldn&#x27;t necessarily recommend against them for startups just getting going today. By the time you are really scaling it&#x27;s like they&#x27;ll have more of the kinks worked out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine</title><url>https://open.nytimes.com/moving-the-new-york-times-games-platform-to-google-app-engine-e9337f2c9444</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tscanausa</author><text>Hi, I am not sure you will read this as it&#x27;s 10 hours after posting. The cloud sql updating both copies sounds like a bug. If you want to email me your case number I can look into it. I know you don&#x27;t work with GCP anymore but I like to resolve the issue for other users.<p>Email: [email protected]<p>Disclosure: I work on gcp support. Not paid to be here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ciguy</author><text>As a DevOps consultant I&#x27;ve actually worked with clients migrating stacks to and from GCE&#x2F;AWS (Yeah, both ways, not the same client).<p>What I&#x27;ve found in aggregate is that GCE is a bit easier to use at first as AWS has a LOT of features and terminology to learn. When it comes down to it though, many GCE services felt really immature, particularly their CloudSQL offering.<p>One client recently moved from GCE to AWS simply because their CloudSQL (Fully replicated with fail-over setup according to GCE recommendations) kept randomly dying for several minutes at a time. After a LOT of back and forth Google finally admitted that they had updated the replica and the master at the same time, so when it failed over the replica was also down.<p>There were other instances of unexplained downtime that were never adequately explained, but overall that experience was enough for me (And the client) to totally lose faith in the GCE teams competence. Even getting a serious investigation into intermittent downtime and an explanation took over a month. By that time our migration to AWS was in progress.<p>GCE never did explain why they would choose to apply updates to replica + master SQL at the same time and as far as I know they are still doing this. I asked if we could at least be notified of update events, was told that&#x27;s not possible.<p>There were other issues as well that taken together just made GCE seem amateurish. I&#x27;m sure as they mature a bit things will get better, and it is cheaper which is why I wouldn&#x27;t necessarily recommend against them for startups just getting going today. By the time you are really scaling it&#x27;s like they&#x27;ll have more of the kinks worked out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine</title><url>https://open.nytimes.com/moving-the-new-york-times-games-platform-to-google-app-engine-e9337f2c9444</url></story> |
36,886,314 | 36,886,540 | 1 | 3 | 36,880,235 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>deaddodo</author><text>&gt; (If you&#x27;ve only ever got comfortable with a windows-style &quot;maximised window&quot; approach, you&#x27;ll probably disagree with me, however).<p>Windows-style? Microsoft&#x27;s APIs and design paradigms are as floating-window focused as they are maximized-focused. And I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve had a window open maximized since the XP days. Multiple document interfaces were a first class citizen for a decade and a half, so clearly they understand and encourage window use.<p>Single task, maximized windows are a <i>user</i> paradigm. Usually by regular old users that just want a browser, tax program, video game, etc and that Windows doesn&#x27;t get in the way of. These same people will use the expander in macOS, or just use their computer with a single half-sized window in the middle of their screen. &quot;Power&quot; users (devs, creatives, traders, PMs, CSRs, etc) will best use the environment in any OS, for their use case.<p>In addition, maximized windows are ubiquitous on <i>mobile platforms</i> and are a paradigm that <i>Apple</i> seems insistent on, considering how hard the Android (and Microsoft before their inevitable mobile death) companies are working on solving the multi-tasking problem. Even now, I can have multiple floating, resizable windows on a Galaxy device; while I can not on an iOS one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>iamcalledrob</author><text>People generally have pretty good spatial sensibilities, and I feel like modern OS designers seem to forget this. You feel this especially on iPadOS.<p>Physically arranging windows allows for a much more solid multi-tasking experience, and encouraged direct manipulation of content e.g. drag and drop. Transient &quot;palette&quot; or &quot;panel&quot; windows allow for a short term buffer (think a find&#x2F;replace panel). To me, this is what made macOS so great for creative tasks. It activated my spatial memory.<p>I&#x27;m grumpy about the recent trend towards apps living in one monolithic window. Apple&#x27;s going down this route with their recent app redesigns from multi-window to single window, likely due to a (selfish) desire to unify with iPadOS. Electron adds a dev tax for multiple windows, such that folks don&#x27;t really think to do it.<p>I think this trend is probably due to the convergence of desktop app design with the web, which is inherently single window -- and traces its roots back to window.open() being abused by pop-up ads.<p>It&#x27;s unfortunate because a single window user experience is limiting -- and people are forgetting that anything else is even possible. I miss the days when chat apps had separate windows for each chat, and a buddy list you could pin to the side of the screen.<p>(If you&#x27;ve only ever got comfortable with a windows-style &quot;maximised window&quot; approach, you&#x27;ll probably disagree with me, however).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rethinking Window Management</title><url>https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-window-management/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>taeric</author><text>I would take issue with your first claim. People, in general, have very mixed spatial sensibilities. Is why it takes herculean efforts to keep dishes organized in a family. Some people have organizations they want. Some have different and incompatible organizations they want. Some people just don&#x27;t care.<p>Seriously, look at the insane amount of effort that a grocery store has to go through to keep things organized. Keeping things spatially coherent is just not a thing that people do for things they don&#x27;t care about.<p>To get even crazier, look at the vast differences in how different clothing stores spatially organize each other. Each is organized. Each is fairly incompatible with the others. Even department stores have a great deal of variability in the different departments.<p>So, any attempt at rethinking window management with the idea that you can find a superior form of management is so doomed to failure that it is kind of comical.</text><parent_chain><item><author>iamcalledrob</author><text>People generally have pretty good spatial sensibilities, and I feel like modern OS designers seem to forget this. You feel this especially on iPadOS.<p>Physically arranging windows allows for a much more solid multi-tasking experience, and encouraged direct manipulation of content e.g. drag and drop. Transient &quot;palette&quot; or &quot;panel&quot; windows allow for a short term buffer (think a find&#x2F;replace panel). To me, this is what made macOS so great for creative tasks. It activated my spatial memory.<p>I&#x27;m grumpy about the recent trend towards apps living in one monolithic window. Apple&#x27;s going down this route with their recent app redesigns from multi-window to single window, likely due to a (selfish) desire to unify with iPadOS. Electron adds a dev tax for multiple windows, such that folks don&#x27;t really think to do it.<p>I think this trend is probably due to the convergence of desktop app design with the web, which is inherently single window -- and traces its roots back to window.open() being abused by pop-up ads.<p>It&#x27;s unfortunate because a single window user experience is limiting -- and people are forgetting that anything else is even possible. I miss the days when chat apps had separate windows for each chat, and a buddy list you could pin to the side of the screen.<p>(If you&#x27;ve only ever got comfortable with a windows-style &quot;maximised window&quot; approach, you&#x27;ll probably disagree with me, however).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rethinking Window Management</title><url>https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-window-management/</url></story> |
21,880,217 | 21,879,800 | 1 | 3 | 21,859,747 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mntmoss</author><text>The great lie that games tend to run with is that if they define a sufficiently large lookup table of results, they get a convincing effect without being accurate to any form of reality.<p>This is basically true with almost all character controller behaviors(perfect ability to jump high, sidestep, slide etc. without stumbling) and also with combat results(add enough animations and you have a melee combat system; turn granular physical reactions like bullet impacts into a state change making the target &quot;hurt&quot; or &quot;stunned&quot;). And it&#x27;s even true of the earliest ball-and-bat games: reduce hitting a ball to a lookup table of trajectories and you get Pong without having any trigonometry in your algorithm. You can define a massive swathe of gameplay code as combinations of &quot;lookup table, finite state, timers, resource counters&quot;.<p>This is also true of the physics solvers: define the solver in terms of eliminating all the visibly wrong results(which in the base case means filtering the set of results that contain penetration), and you have one sufficiently good for gameplay. For 2D games this has classically meant solving AABB-AABB movements along 1 axis at a time(i.e. if your raycast is diagonal it&#x27;s reduced to two one dimensional on-axis movements, which is trivial to compute). Once you want realistic physics as a &quot;special effect&quot; you typically will switch towards using a physics library to provide both solver and colliders, and so as a gameplay programmer you may never have to learn the physics problem in much depth.<p>The video games that really work with physics instead of against them are kind of exceptional, and tend to be categorized as &quot;simulators&quot; - flight sim, racing sim, pool sim, pinball sim. Or they are joke games like QWOP, or at their most fantastic, space games. When we actually simulate anything, the scenario-and-story space tends to reduce dramatically as everything starts converging around the sim&#x27;s chaos. As we eliminate the sim, more can exist in the designer-fiat space. That&#x27;s how we can have games about wrestling and swordfighting and yet not really be able to convey the physics or controls of those activities.</text><parent_chain><item><author>redistressed</author><text>Fun side note to this: although bullet collisions are trivial, <i>sword</i> collisions are genuinely computationally complex, in the sense that I’m not aware of a single publicly available game engine that ships with a robust real-time solver for sword-sword collisions.<p>I find this really interesting because it’s a complete inversion of reality, where bullet impacts are vastly more energetic and chaotic than sword clashes. It tells you something about the scale we play games at, maybe.<p>I don’t see people talking about it, but this has to be a huge part of why sword combat in video games is so much less explored and well-realized than gunfighting. Figuring out why it’s such a hard problem, and exploring the various workarounds and their limitations, is a fun weekend project if you know a little computational geometry. (And it’s probably the work of a few minutes if you know enough formal geometry, I guess.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Do Bullets Work in Video Games?</title><url>https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/TristanJung/20191206/355250/How_Do_Bullets_Work_in_Video_Games.php</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rriepe</author><text>Bullets don&#x27;t have bullet&#x2F;bullet collisions and they largely don&#x27;t affect the player model at all.<p>Swords can hit other swords but they also have to convincingly portray the arms, head, torso and legs during any swing or interrupt.<p>Having said all that, I think Jedi Knight 2 is still the best swordplay system. But only because the animations just ignore everything in their way, as a lightsaber would. Each time lightsabers hit there&#x27;e either a brief flash of light or a power struggle.</text><parent_chain><item><author>redistressed</author><text>Fun side note to this: although bullet collisions are trivial, <i>sword</i> collisions are genuinely computationally complex, in the sense that I’m not aware of a single publicly available game engine that ships with a robust real-time solver for sword-sword collisions.<p>I find this really interesting because it’s a complete inversion of reality, where bullet impacts are vastly more energetic and chaotic than sword clashes. It tells you something about the scale we play games at, maybe.<p>I don’t see people talking about it, but this has to be a huge part of why sword combat in video games is so much less explored and well-realized than gunfighting. Figuring out why it’s such a hard problem, and exploring the various workarounds and their limitations, is a fun weekend project if you know a little computational geometry. (And it’s probably the work of a few minutes if you know enough formal geometry, I guess.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Do Bullets Work in Video Games?</title><url>https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/TristanJung/20191206/355250/How_Do_Bullets_Work_in_Video_Games.php</url></story> |
32,672,995 | 32,672,688 | 1 | 2 | 32,656,463 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fmajid</author><text>Non-YKK zippers are a canary: what other corners have been cut? Unless they’re RiRi, of course.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nindalf</author><text>&gt; You don’t buy your jeans and jackets by looking for their letters on that pull. Likewise, you almost certainly wouldn’t nix a garment purchase because the zipper isn’t YKK.<p>This is partially true. YKK has tremendous brand loyalty among people buying expensive backpacks. If you’re spending $100 or more, it gives you a lot of peace of mind to know that the zipper won’t fail.<p>I ended up buying one last month. One of the reasons was that it promised YKK AquaGuard zippers for the laptop compartment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012)</title><url>https://slate.com/business/2012/04/ykk-zippers-why-so-many-designers-use-them.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ABeeSea</author><text>There is nothing that will make you appreciate the quality of a zipper more than having the zipper on your luggage break while in the airport.<p>And that is the day that I learned the Miami airport has a service that will basically use industrial strength cling wrap to seal your luggage.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nindalf</author><text>&gt; You don’t buy your jeans and jackets by looking for their letters on that pull. Likewise, you almost certainly wouldn’t nix a garment purchase because the zipper isn’t YKK.<p>This is partially true. YKK has tremendous brand loyalty among people buying expensive backpacks. If you’re spending $100 or more, it gives you a lot of peace of mind to know that the zipper won’t fail.<p>I ended up buying one last month. One of the reasons was that it promised YKK AquaGuard zippers for the laptop compartment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012)</title><url>https://slate.com/business/2012/04/ykk-zippers-why-so-many-designers-use-them.html</url></story> |
22,839,003 | 22,838,872 | 1 | 3 | 22,838,130 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>parhamn</author><text>It&#x27;s a shame you can&#x27;t easily add an extensions to most hosted postgres solutions. I hacked on the postgres ltree extension [1] recently, and was amazed at how easy it is to extend functionality of the database, add new types&#x2F;operators&#x2F;etc. I think if they were a bit more accessible we&#x27;d see them much more. You can even write them in go [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;postgres&#x2F;postgres&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;contrib&#x2F;ltree" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;postgres&#x2F;postgres&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;contrib&#x2F;ltr...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microo8&#x2F;plgo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microo8&#x2F;plgo</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introduction to Hacking PostgreSQL (2007)</title><url>http://www.neilconway.org/talks/hacking/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ghayes</author><text>From my limited experience diving into the Postgres source code, it&#x27;s really a treat. Everything is very clearly written and documented. It&#x27;s pretty easy to read the source code to get an understanding of how components of Postgres work under the hood.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introduction to Hacking PostgreSQL (2007)</title><url>http://www.neilconway.org/talks/hacking/</url></story> |
5,995,840 | 5,994,405 | 1 | 2 | 5,993,421 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adventured</author><text>It&#x27;s not: will fall; America has fallen. It&#x27;s a realization most are just starting to come to.<p>America collapsed in four waves. 1913, 1930, 1971, 2001.<p>By <i>almost</i> any metric you could measure, America has lost substantial ground over 40 years. The late 1990s or early 2000&#x27;s was the peak of the visible projection of &quot;superpower&quot; status, but it was mostly a fraud. Even the temporary budget surplus was a fraud, made possible by an extreme economic bubble and stealing from social security inflows.<p>The real US standard of living has declined since the late 1960s. And that huge standard of living was only possible due to the rest of the world having been blown up in WW2; America was left with half the global manufacturing base by default, with little competition for two decades.<p>In the most straight-forward of terms: America got rich with manufacturing, and poor with consumption; one creates wealth, the other eats it. China is now the one getting rich off of manufacturing, along with a few other nations.<p>We&#x27;ve been floating on borrowed time for 30 years in the form of ever cheaper credit, sustained by the military reach of a superpower that convinced the likes of Japan and China to buy trillions of dollars of worthless paper. The dollar, as the global reserve currency, has been living on a reputation it hasn&#x27;t deserved for many decades, namely that it&#x27;s good as gold.<p>The end of cheap money has arrived. You can easily guess what happens next. US national debt has a mere 64 month turn over period to it. Countries like China have shifted most of their treasuries to short term holdings. 5% * $20 trillion = $1 trillion in interest alone. See Japan for an example of what happens, they currently pay half their tax revenue toward debt interest.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tokenizer</author><text>Then they will fall. The protests were an abysmal failure. I&#x27;ve seen plenty of &quot;I don&#x27;t care&quot; opinions regarding it, and that&#x27;s not even factoring the 50+% of people who don&#x27;t even follow such things.<p>People get what they deserve, and the world apparently deserves the US monitoring all of its communications. My only hope is a complete collapse of their government.</text></item><item><author>milesf</author><text><i>The danger of a surveillance state is not the obscure chance of a truly evil person abusing the system; rather, the actual threat, the real danger, is a person with good intentions who believes that their draconian actions are morally justified and prudent. It is such a leader, perhaps with the best of intentions, who can make the most heinous of mistakes with eyes wide open and belief that the ends justify the means. Those ends never justify eviscerating the Fourth Amendment.</i><p>If the American people do not understand this, then they will abandon their freedoms and liberty voluntarily, without any outside foreign invasion or attack.<p>They will fall because of apathy, just like the Romans did.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If PRISM is Good Policy, Why Stop with Terrorism?</title><url>http://m.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/if-prism-is-good-policy-why-stop-with-terrorism/277531/?</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alan_cx</author><text>Yeah, here too in the UK but worse. As I have said before even the satirists don&#x27;t seem to give a toss. The level of apathy is stunning. Frankly, I think the terror scare stories have worked a treat, as I suppose is predictable. Which is amazing since we in the UK lived through a real(1) terrorist campaign with the IRA. All I hear is, &quot;well, I don&#x27;t care if the silly spooks see my boring facebook, email, shopping data. Ha, ha to them if they are that interested.&quot;. And that is it. Heh, even heard, &quot;well, I&#x27;ve got nothing to hide&quot;.<p>I have to say, I don&#x27;t really care any more. I have had enough. Yeah, I don&#x27;t like what the US is doing, but my lot are in it up their necks, and are literally proud of it. My people don&#x27;t care, my media don&#x27;t care, no one cares. So I am the odd one out. Fine, we live in a so called democracy, so the people can have what they damn well deserve. My only hope is that I see this get really out of hand, and &quot;normal&quot; people start to get hurt by this. Then I can just stand there and laugh my sweet behind off at them, asking, &quot;who did you vote for?&quot;.<p>As for me, I&#x27;ll be a lot more careful, increasingly use security and simply act in a more aware way. Its all I can do. :(<p>(1)I say &quot;real&quot; because the &quot;troubles&quot; lasted over 30 years with sustained attacks of many kinds were successfully launched through that entire period, including the bombing of our entire government. Way worse than anything evil Muslims have done to the UK. I was indirectly involved, I know real terror. A one off attack is NOT terror. 30 odd years sustained, damn well is. Oh, a lot of it funded by Americans who saw the IRA as freedom fighters.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tokenizer</author><text>Then they will fall. The protests were an abysmal failure. I&#x27;ve seen plenty of &quot;I don&#x27;t care&quot; opinions regarding it, and that&#x27;s not even factoring the 50+% of people who don&#x27;t even follow such things.<p>People get what they deserve, and the world apparently deserves the US monitoring all of its communications. My only hope is a complete collapse of their government.</text></item><item><author>milesf</author><text><i>The danger of a surveillance state is not the obscure chance of a truly evil person abusing the system; rather, the actual threat, the real danger, is a person with good intentions who believes that their draconian actions are morally justified and prudent. It is such a leader, perhaps with the best of intentions, who can make the most heinous of mistakes with eyes wide open and belief that the ends justify the means. Those ends never justify eviscerating the Fourth Amendment.</i><p>If the American people do not understand this, then they will abandon their freedoms and liberty voluntarily, without any outside foreign invasion or attack.<p>They will fall because of apathy, just like the Romans did.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If PRISM is Good Policy, Why Stop with Terrorism?</title><url>http://m.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/if-prism-is-good-policy-why-stop-with-terrorism/277531/?</url></story> |
8,758,960 | 8,758,929 | 1 | 3 | 8,758,671 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Khao</author><text>So when those new native api functions arrive, jQuery will start using them and gain some performance boost (using native vs. custom js code) while at the same time remaining backwards compatible (by doing feature detection). No one wants to write their own feature detection code so this whole page about using native apis is instead of jQuery is ridiculous.<p>If the point of that website was to educate people on the apis that jQuery calls under the hood, it chose a really poor name.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oneeyedpigeon</author><text>.classlist() [1] is coming [2]. It&#x27;ll allow you to do:<p><pre><code> document.getElementById(&#x27;foo&#x27;).classList.remove(&quot;bold&quot;);
</code></pre>
Sure, it&#x27;s still more verbose. But a lot of what jQuery does is slowly being obsoleted by better native javascript apis.<p>[1] <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element.classList" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;API&#x2F;Element.cla...</a>
[2] <a href="http://caniuse.com/#feat=classlist" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;caniuse.com&#x2F;#feat=classlist</a></text></item><item><author>bshimmin</author><text>You can basically sum up this entire rather ridiculous site with &quot;Yes, you don&#x27;t <i>need</i> jQuery, you can just use the built-in methods, but using jQuery is generally more pleasant, more consistent, and involves less typing&quot;. One particularly egregious example from the site:<p><pre><code> $(&#x27;#foo&#x27;).removeClass(&#x27;bold&#x27;);
</code></pre>
vs.<p><pre><code> document.getElementById(&#x27;foo&#x27;).className =
document.getElementById(&#x27;foo&#x27;).className.replace(&#x2F;^bold$&#x2F;, &#x27;&#x27;);
</code></pre>
The author summarises this, helpfully: &quot;As usual, more characters, but still easy without jQuery.&quot;<p>Of course, if you were doing that remove class operation quite often, rather than writing all that code out each time, you might wrap it up in a helper method, and maybe you&#x27;d call it, I don&#x27;t know, &quot;removeClass&quot; or something; perhaps if you were doing a whole bunch of DOM operations you might create little helper methods for each one, again to save you some typing. Pretty quickly you might end up with a little library of helper methods... and, of course, being a wonderful programmer who never makes mistakes, I&#x27;m sure that little library would be every bit as optimised, reliable, and correct as a battle-tested library used on hundreds of thousands of web sites.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You Don't Need JQuery</title><url>http://blog.garstasio.com/you-dont-need-jquery/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jhpriestley</author><text>`$(&quot;.foo&quot;).removeClass(&quot;bold&quot;)` becomes the wonderfully concise<p><pre><code> [].map.call(document.querySelectorAll(&quot;.foo&quot;), function(node) { node.classlist.remove(&quot;bold&quot;); })</code></pre></text><parent_chain><item><author>oneeyedpigeon</author><text>.classlist() [1] is coming [2]. It&#x27;ll allow you to do:<p><pre><code> document.getElementById(&#x27;foo&#x27;).classList.remove(&quot;bold&quot;);
</code></pre>
Sure, it&#x27;s still more verbose. But a lot of what jQuery does is slowly being obsoleted by better native javascript apis.<p>[1] <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element.classList" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;API&#x2F;Element.cla...</a>
[2] <a href="http://caniuse.com/#feat=classlist" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;caniuse.com&#x2F;#feat=classlist</a></text></item><item><author>bshimmin</author><text>You can basically sum up this entire rather ridiculous site with &quot;Yes, you don&#x27;t <i>need</i> jQuery, you can just use the built-in methods, but using jQuery is generally more pleasant, more consistent, and involves less typing&quot;. One particularly egregious example from the site:<p><pre><code> $(&#x27;#foo&#x27;).removeClass(&#x27;bold&#x27;);
</code></pre>
vs.<p><pre><code> document.getElementById(&#x27;foo&#x27;).className =
document.getElementById(&#x27;foo&#x27;).className.replace(&#x2F;^bold$&#x2F;, &#x27;&#x27;);
</code></pre>
The author summarises this, helpfully: &quot;As usual, more characters, but still easy without jQuery.&quot;<p>Of course, if you were doing that remove class operation quite often, rather than writing all that code out each time, you might wrap it up in a helper method, and maybe you&#x27;d call it, I don&#x27;t know, &quot;removeClass&quot; or something; perhaps if you were doing a whole bunch of DOM operations you might create little helper methods for each one, again to save you some typing. Pretty quickly you might end up with a little library of helper methods... and, of course, being a wonderful programmer who never makes mistakes, I&#x27;m sure that little library would be every bit as optimised, reliable, and correct as a battle-tested library used on hundreds of thousands of web sites.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You Don't Need JQuery</title><url>http://blog.garstasio.com/you-dont-need-jquery/</url></story> |
24,791,230 | 24,791,372 | 1 | 3 | 24,789,445 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>majormajor</author><text>&gt; If the market is doing fantastic, then it&#x27;s not as important to have savings<p>This makes no sense to me in the context of retirement savings.<p>You&#x27;ve retired. You aren&#x27;t capturing part of that market anymore.<p>The standard wisdom is &quot;switch to lower risk investments as retirement gets closer&quot; which is specifically because the market may turn. But if you&#x27;re never in the market, you&#x27;re gonna miss out on a lot of gains before then, unless you&#x27;re expecting decades straight of poor performance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>baron_harkonnen</author><text>&gt; outside of throwing any savings I can muster into a vanguard fund,<p>I know the popular advice for the last decade has been &quot;stock market always goes up! 8% a year!&quot; but do you really believe it&#x27;s wise to align your future investment strategy with the general well being of the economic.<p>I&#x27;m not saying don&#x27;t have a 401k (well if you really press me, I will say that), but if all of your savings are directly tied to the market that means that you are most successful when the rest of the market succeeds, but in the case that the market collapses you also collapse. This is leverage, the opposite of hedging.<p>It has always seemed strange to me that Wallstreet has convinced American&#x27;s to treat their retirement as leverage rather than a hedge. If the market is doing fantastic, then it&#x27;s not as important to have savings, and if the market is doing poorly it&#x27;s important have other means of economic stability.</text></item><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>I don’t know much about the stock market outside of throwing any savings I can muster into a vanguard fund, but articles like this remind me of the scene from Silicon Valley where the Pied Piper team is talking about finding a revenue stream.<p>Their investor, the Mark Cuban caricature, Russ Hanneman butts in and yells at them about the dangers of showing revenue and how it proves you might only be a 2x-er.<p>&quot;It&#x27;s not about how much you earn. It&#x27;s about what you&#x27;re worth. And who is worth the most? Companies that lose money!&quot;<p>He goes on to argue that if you don’t show any revenue then the possibilities are left only to the imagination!<p>Pre-revenue = maybe a 100x-er at some point!<p>Obviously silly and over simplified, but I do think that there is truth in the humor. Once this company gets its act together, it <i>could</i> shoot to the moon!<p>Edit: Here&#x27;s a link to the scene: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why are so many unprofitable companies the best performing stocks this year?</title><url>https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2020/10/why-are-so-many-unprofitable-companies-the-best-performing-stocks-this-year/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>autokad</author><text>its neither a hedge nor leverage. It&#x27;s a place to put your long term money to grow, probably the best place. if by &#x27;Wallstreet&#x27; you mean financial advisors, they recommend a mix of assets, not a single asset class in stocks. most people have a mix of stocks, bonds, and real estate.<p>it use to be 10%, in the late 2000s it got revised to 7%, though many today think it&#x27;s realistically 5%.</text><parent_chain><item><author>baron_harkonnen</author><text>&gt; outside of throwing any savings I can muster into a vanguard fund,<p>I know the popular advice for the last decade has been &quot;stock market always goes up! 8% a year!&quot; but do you really believe it&#x27;s wise to align your future investment strategy with the general well being of the economic.<p>I&#x27;m not saying don&#x27;t have a 401k (well if you really press me, I will say that), but if all of your savings are directly tied to the market that means that you are most successful when the rest of the market succeeds, but in the case that the market collapses you also collapse. This is leverage, the opposite of hedging.<p>It has always seemed strange to me that Wallstreet has convinced American&#x27;s to treat their retirement as leverage rather than a hedge. If the market is doing fantastic, then it&#x27;s not as important to have savings, and if the market is doing poorly it&#x27;s important have other means of economic stability.</text></item><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>I don’t know much about the stock market outside of throwing any savings I can muster into a vanguard fund, but articles like this remind me of the scene from Silicon Valley where the Pied Piper team is talking about finding a revenue stream.<p>Their investor, the Mark Cuban caricature, Russ Hanneman butts in and yells at them about the dangers of showing revenue and how it proves you might only be a 2x-er.<p>&quot;It&#x27;s not about how much you earn. It&#x27;s about what you&#x27;re worth. And who is worth the most? Companies that lose money!&quot;<p>He goes on to argue that if you don’t show any revenue then the possibilities are left only to the imagination!<p>Pre-revenue = maybe a 100x-er at some point!<p>Obviously silly and over simplified, but I do think that there is truth in the humor. Once this company gets its act together, it <i>could</i> shoot to the moon!<p>Edit: Here&#x27;s a link to the scene: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why are so many unprofitable companies the best performing stocks this year?</title><url>https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2020/10/why-are-so-many-unprofitable-companies-the-best-performing-stocks-this-year/</url></story> |
33,246,821 | 33,245,917 | 1 | 2 | 33,244,756 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tasn</author><text>&gt; Too bad most of the Rust jobs right now seem to be in crypto.<p>We are hiring for Rust engineers. Not crypto. :)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.svix.com&#x2F;careers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.svix.com&#x2F;careers&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cageface</author><text>I&#x27;ve started working in Rust too and I too find it a tremendous breath of fresh air. It&#x27;s the first time I&#x27;ve been excited about a new programming language in many years.<p>C++ promised to be a language that was both high performance and very expressive but I always found it very difficult to work at a high level of abstraction in C++. The sharp details always stab through.<p>Rust code, on the other hand, often doesn&#x27;t look much more elaborate than code I write in much higher level languages but it&#x27;s far, far faster and I feel more confident in its correctness.<p>Too bad most of the Rust jobs right now seem to be in crypto.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Rust?</title><url>https://www.rerun.io/blog/why-rust</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>black_puppydog</author><text>&gt; Too bad most of the Rust jobs right now seem to be in crypto.<p>It is not really surprising that the crypto bros jumped onto the bandwagon, the tech got hyped just around the same time. Just, one of them correctly. :)<p>It&#x27;s just a shame that other companies don&#x27;t seem to follow suit. Except some, who always ask for &quot;Senior Rust Developer&quot; which I&#x27;d guess is still a limited supply market. :D</text><parent_chain><item><author>cageface</author><text>I&#x27;ve started working in Rust too and I too find it a tremendous breath of fresh air. It&#x27;s the first time I&#x27;ve been excited about a new programming language in many years.<p>C++ promised to be a language that was both high performance and very expressive but I always found it very difficult to work at a high level of abstraction in C++. The sharp details always stab through.<p>Rust code, on the other hand, often doesn&#x27;t look much more elaborate than code I write in much higher level languages but it&#x27;s far, far faster and I feel more confident in its correctness.<p>Too bad most of the Rust jobs right now seem to be in crypto.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Rust?</title><url>https://www.rerun.io/blog/why-rust</url></story> |
36,718,254 | 36,717,122 | 1 | 2 | 36,714,869 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>&gt; The buyer usually waits until the very last minute, then drops the bomb on the seller &quot;Btw, we can&#x27;t do the deal anymore at this price, but we can sign tomorrow for 30% less&quot;. The sad part is it&#x27;s such a common tactic and PE firms will do things like encourage founders to get their whole team excited about the transaction -before- dropping the bomb &#x2F; new deal terms. At which point the founder is basically trapped with their whole team excited about an exit, which PE then exploits.<p>Eh, this was tried on a friend of mine selling his company. He simply said &quot;the deal&#x27;s off&quot; and walked away. A couple weeks later, he got another call which said &quot;ok&quot; and he got the full price.<p>&gt; That also puts bootsrapped companies at a severe disadvantage<p>It&#x27;s very simple. Just say &quot;no&quot;. It&#x27;s an incredibly powerful tool. It&#x27;s crucial to getting a proper deal on anything from selling&#x2F;buying your house, your car, to your company. Be ready to walk away. Sometimes by the time you started your car and are backing out of the parking spot, they&#x27;ll come running out and say &quot;ok&quot;.<p>But you gotta mean it when you say &quot;no&quot; or you&#x27;ll fail. They can smell weakness.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cj</author><text>Simple answer:<p>A successful founder will sell 1 (maybe 2) companies in their lifetime, while PE&#x2F;VC firms do these deals every day of the week.<p>It&#x27;s like entering the ring with a pro MMA fighter and expecting to have a fair fight. You have a massive disadvantage that can&#x27;t be overcome. The best you can do is take precautions and &quot;do your best&quot; but &quot;your best&quot; and &quot;precautions&quot; still isn&#x27;t good enough if your opponent really wants to screw you over. Unfortunately this happens all the time in VC, and especially in PE.<p>As an example, when you sign a term sheet to sell a company, most founders assume the deal will go through at the price that was agreed. In reality, deals almost never close at the originally agreed upon price. The buyer usually waits until the very last minute, then drops the bomb on the seller &quot;Btw, we can&#x27;t do the deal anymore at this price, but we can sign tomorrow for 30% less&quot;. The sad part is it&#x27;s such a common tactic and PE firms will do things like encourage founders to get their whole team excited about the transaction -before- dropping the bomb &#x2F; new deal terms. At which point the founder is basically trapped with their whole team excited about an exit, which PE then exploits.<p>All of the lawyers in the world won&#x27;t help if the PE&#x2F;VC firm has the ability to spread the word &quot;Don&#x27;t do business with John Appleseed&quot; effectively shadow-banning you from future funding from anyone. PE&#x2F;VC world is very small and they have a lot of political leverage, which almost always trumps any legal leverage a founder might have.<p>The best defense is to have another VC&#x2F;PE on your side.<p>That also puts bootsrapped companies at a severe disadvantage (no VC fighting on their side for the best outcome). There literally are PE firms who specialize in buying &quot;family run bootstrapped businesses&quot;. Why? Because they&#x27;re the easiest to screw over and exploit.</text></item><item><author>mediaman</author><text>Stories like this are bizarre. There are a million ways to ensure rights for a founder-owner that do not depend on 51% ownership, such as requiring supermajority votes for replacing the CEO, or right of first refusals granted to the founder-owner for share transfers. If they throw a fit about those terms, then don&#x27;t do the deal!<p>If you are selling shares to a PE firm with the explicit goal of retaining control, and you have less than 50% of shares, why would you make it so easy for them to get control?</text></item><item><author>cj</author><text>I was chatting with a company who sold a large minority stake in their company to a well known private equity group (think 49%) with the explicit purpose of retaining control.<p>Soon after the transaction closed, the PE firm was able to covertly buy another 2% of voting shares from a pre-existing investor in the company, which resulted in the PE firm gaining full majority control over the company, kicked out the CEO, replaced the board of directors, the whole works.<p>The unfortunate part about these kinds of things is that 1) they happen all the time, and 2) founders rarely talk about it because doing so can so often destroy your ability to get funding for future endevors, etc.<p>I really wish there were an anonymous but vetted &quot;yelp&quot; type of site for people&#x2F;firms who do bad business. So much business is done in bad faith and the people on the losing end rarely have the ability to warn others of their experience without killing their own reputation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>StabilityAI cofounder says CEO tricked him into selling stake for $100</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/07/13/stability-ai-cofounder-says-emad-mostaque-tricked-him-into-selling-stake-for-100/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kmeisthax</author><text>One other advantage of buying family run bootstrapped businesses is that they&#x27;re too small to trip antitrust scrutiny. There are entire industries whose driving consolidation force is a handful of PE firms buying up old family businesses and running them into the ground. Things like funeral homes, dental offices, and the like.<p>Yes, I did learn about this from Cory Doctorow, why do you ask?</text><parent_chain><item><author>cj</author><text>Simple answer:<p>A successful founder will sell 1 (maybe 2) companies in their lifetime, while PE&#x2F;VC firms do these deals every day of the week.<p>It&#x27;s like entering the ring with a pro MMA fighter and expecting to have a fair fight. You have a massive disadvantage that can&#x27;t be overcome. The best you can do is take precautions and &quot;do your best&quot; but &quot;your best&quot; and &quot;precautions&quot; still isn&#x27;t good enough if your opponent really wants to screw you over. Unfortunately this happens all the time in VC, and especially in PE.<p>As an example, when you sign a term sheet to sell a company, most founders assume the deal will go through at the price that was agreed. In reality, deals almost never close at the originally agreed upon price. The buyer usually waits until the very last minute, then drops the bomb on the seller &quot;Btw, we can&#x27;t do the deal anymore at this price, but we can sign tomorrow for 30% less&quot;. The sad part is it&#x27;s such a common tactic and PE firms will do things like encourage founders to get their whole team excited about the transaction -before- dropping the bomb &#x2F; new deal terms. At which point the founder is basically trapped with their whole team excited about an exit, which PE then exploits.<p>All of the lawyers in the world won&#x27;t help if the PE&#x2F;VC firm has the ability to spread the word &quot;Don&#x27;t do business with John Appleseed&quot; effectively shadow-banning you from future funding from anyone. PE&#x2F;VC world is very small and they have a lot of political leverage, which almost always trumps any legal leverage a founder might have.<p>The best defense is to have another VC&#x2F;PE on your side.<p>That also puts bootsrapped companies at a severe disadvantage (no VC fighting on their side for the best outcome). There literally are PE firms who specialize in buying &quot;family run bootstrapped businesses&quot;. Why? Because they&#x27;re the easiest to screw over and exploit.</text></item><item><author>mediaman</author><text>Stories like this are bizarre. There are a million ways to ensure rights for a founder-owner that do not depend on 51% ownership, such as requiring supermajority votes for replacing the CEO, or right of first refusals granted to the founder-owner for share transfers. If they throw a fit about those terms, then don&#x27;t do the deal!<p>If you are selling shares to a PE firm with the explicit goal of retaining control, and you have less than 50% of shares, why would you make it so easy for them to get control?</text></item><item><author>cj</author><text>I was chatting with a company who sold a large minority stake in their company to a well known private equity group (think 49%) with the explicit purpose of retaining control.<p>Soon after the transaction closed, the PE firm was able to covertly buy another 2% of voting shares from a pre-existing investor in the company, which resulted in the PE firm gaining full majority control over the company, kicked out the CEO, replaced the board of directors, the whole works.<p>The unfortunate part about these kinds of things is that 1) they happen all the time, and 2) founders rarely talk about it because doing so can so often destroy your ability to get funding for future endevors, etc.<p>I really wish there were an anonymous but vetted &quot;yelp&quot; type of site for people&#x2F;firms who do bad business. So much business is done in bad faith and the people on the losing end rarely have the ability to warn others of their experience without killing their own reputation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>StabilityAI cofounder says CEO tricked him into selling stake for $100</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/07/13/stability-ai-cofounder-says-emad-mostaque-tricked-him-into-selling-stake-for-100/</url></story> |
14,316,992 | 14,315,864 | 1 | 2 | 14,315,690 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>A couple of years ago a colleague built this for H264&#x2F;5: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.argondesign.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;argon-streams-hevc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.argondesign.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;argon-streams-hevc&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s not just a fuzzer, it guarantees to hit every part of the spec (subject to what &quot;profile&quot; you&#x27;re implementing). It&#x27;s not free, it&#x27;s a product for sale to implementers of HEVC for verification purposes.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (2014)</title><url>https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/11/pulling-jpegs-out-of-thin-air.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acdha</author><text>Previous discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8571879" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8571879</a><p>Since then the bug list has grown impressively: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lcamtuf.coredump.cx&#x2F;afl&#x2F;#bugs" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lcamtuf.coredump.cx&#x2F;afl&#x2F;#bugs</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (2014)</title><url>https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/11/pulling-jpegs-out-of-thin-air.html</url></story> |
19,232,391 | 19,232,411 | 1 | 2 | 19,223,188 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xg15</author><text>Interesting article, though I find some of the reached conclusions somewhat unexpected:<p>&gt; <i>The issue is not just about making graphic content disappear. Platforms need to better recognize when content is right for some and not for others, when finding what you searched for is not the same as being invited to see more, and when what‘s good for the individual may not be good for the public as a whole.</i><p>&gt; <i>And these algorithms are optimized to serve the individual wants of individual users; it is much more difficult to optimize them for the collective benefit.</i><p>This seems to suggest that the psychological effects of recommenders and &quot;engagement maximizers&quot; are not problematic per se - but today are simply not used with the right objectives in mind.<p>I find this view problematic, because &quot;what&#x27;s good for the public&quot; is so vaguely defined, especially if you divorce it from &quot;what&#x27;s good for the individual&quot;. In the most extreme cases, this could even justify actively driving people into depression or self-harm if you determined that they would otherwise channel their pain into political protests.<p>If we&#x27;re looking for a metric, how about keeping it at an individual level but trying to maximize the <i>long-term</i> wellbeing?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When Algorithms Think You Want to Die</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/when-algorithms-think-you-want-to-die/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>weddpros</author><text>Instagram thinks you want to starve yourself to death when you search for #fasting and offers help... but has no problem with #bingeeating or #meth...<p>Maybe it&#x27;s not only algorithms that have a problem: I think it&#x27;s our very belief that Instagram should do something to curb certain ideas and push others that&#x27;s wrong.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When Algorithms Think You Want to Die</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/when-algorithms-think-you-want-to-die/</url></story> |
36,691,188 | 36,690,916 | 1 | 2 | 36,682,509 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zirgs</author><text>This is the problem with the so-called &quot;multipolar world&quot;. There aren&#x27;t any other democratic poles. So - if you&#x27;re a dissident or a whistleblower and you&#x27;re too high-profile - you have nowhwere to go.<p>Snowden has to live in Russia, because pretty much all Western countries would put him on the first plane to the USA if he ever tried to enter.<p>My country extradites even our own citizens to the USA.</text><parent_chain><item><author>p-e-w</author><text>The only countries where American law is irrelevant are Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran.<p>Go anywhere else, and on closer examination you&#x27;ll find that American law is in fact <i>very</i> relevant, with local governments often bending over backwards to accommodate US legal provisions. Copyright, financial regulation, and international travel are some of the areas where this is usually apparent, but far from the only ones.</text></item><item><author>GordonFremen</author><text>Right, but the DMCA is an American law. It&#x27;s irrelevant in France.</text></item><item><author>nine_k</author><text>&gt; <i>someone in Mountain View is more fluent in French than in English</i><p>No, I think this is for a case of any dispute of terms and particular formulations. The French version, I suppose, is the authoritative original, and a judge or an arbitrator might call for a certified translator to make exact sense of the letter&#x27;s demands.</text></item><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>All of this because they don&#x27;t want you to download Guizmo - Dans ma ruche (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ssyoutube.com&#x2F;en691rT&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ssyoutube.com&#x2F;en691rT&#x2F;</a>)<p>Not the first time they&#x27;ve spammed DMCA takedowns either: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lumendatabase.org&#x2F;faceted_search?sender_name=Because+Music" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lumendatabase.org&#x2F;faceted_search?sender_name=Because...</a><p>In comically French fashion, their complaints also include the same message in French just in case someone in Mountain View is more fluent in French than in English. I wonder if this is just a bunch of amateurs hired by the French label or if they actually pay legal professionals to spam these.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request</title><url>https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announcement/newpipe-net-dmca-google-search/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Pretty much yeah. The US is quite strong at throwing its weight around its areas of influence to enforce laws favorable to their corporations, otherwise they put you on the naughty list (US Special 301 report) and you could start seeing trade restrictions come your way. It&#x27;s how they managed to get RARBG taken down all they way in Bulgaria.</text><parent_chain><item><author>p-e-w</author><text>The only countries where American law is irrelevant are Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran.<p>Go anywhere else, and on closer examination you&#x27;ll find that American law is in fact <i>very</i> relevant, with local governments often bending over backwards to accommodate US legal provisions. Copyright, financial regulation, and international travel are some of the areas where this is usually apparent, but far from the only ones.</text></item><item><author>GordonFremen</author><text>Right, but the DMCA is an American law. It&#x27;s irrelevant in France.</text></item><item><author>nine_k</author><text>&gt; <i>someone in Mountain View is more fluent in French than in English</i><p>No, I think this is for a case of any dispute of terms and particular formulations. The French version, I suppose, is the authoritative original, and a judge or an arbitrator might call for a certified translator to make exact sense of the letter&#x27;s demands.</text></item><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>All of this because they don&#x27;t want you to download Guizmo - Dans ma ruche (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ssyoutube.com&#x2F;en691rT&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ssyoutube.com&#x2F;en691rT&#x2F;</a>)<p>Not the first time they&#x27;ve spammed DMCA takedowns either: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lumendatabase.org&#x2F;faceted_search?sender_name=Because+Music" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lumendatabase.org&#x2F;faceted_search?sender_name=Because...</a><p>In comically French fashion, their complaints also include the same message in French just in case someone in Mountain View is more fluent in French than in English. I wonder if this is just a bunch of amateurs hired by the French label or if they actually pay legal professionals to spam these.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request</title><url>https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announcement/newpipe-net-dmca-google-search/</url></story> |
36,612,192 | 36,611,338 | 1 | 2 | 36,610,595 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noman-land</author><text>I&#x27;ve just been exploring serving large SQLite databases in chunks and querying them with http range requests to prevent downloading the entire database. It&#x27;s pretty awesome!<p>I found a really interesting library called sql.js-httpvfs[0] that does pretty much all the work. I chunked up my 350Mb sqlite db into 43 x 8Mb pieces with the included script and uploaded them with my static files to GitHub, which gets deployed via GitHub Pages.[1]<p>It&#x27;s in the very rough early stages but you can check it out here.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;transcript.fish" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;transcript.fish</a><p>I recommend going into the console and network tab to see it in action. It&#x27;s impressively quick and I haven&#x27;t even fine-tuned it at all yet. SQLite rules.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phiresky&#x2F;sql.js-httpvfs">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phiresky&#x2F;sql.js-httpvfs</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;noman-land&#x2F;transcript.fish">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;noman-land&#x2F;transcript.fish</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cloud Backed SQLite</title><url>https://sqlite.org/cloudsqlite/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>0xbadcafebee</author><text>This adds more cache consistency issues, concurrency issues, network blocking issues, authn+z issues, daemon process supervision issues, ... for what? To store your SQL data in a remote data store? I would rather my app shell out to gsutil (or curl!) than deal with all of this.<p>Simple hack: mount a tmpfs filesystem and write your sqlite database there. Every 30 seconds, stop writing, make a copy of the old database to a new file, start writing to the new file, fork a process to copy the database to the object store and delete the old database file when it&#x27;s done. Add a routine during every 30 second check to look for stale files&#x2F;forked processes.<p>Why use that &quot;crazy hack&quot;, versus the impeccably programmed Cloud Backed SQLite solution?<p>- Easier to troubleshoot. The components involved are all loosely-coupled, well tested, highly stable, simple operations. Every step has a well known set of operations and failure modes that can be easily established by a relatively unskilled technician.<p>- File contents are kept in memory, where copies are cheap and fast.<p>- No daemon outside of the program to maintain<p>- Simple global locking semantics for the file copy, independent of the application<p>- Thread-safe<p>- No network blocking of the application<p>- Authentication is... well, whatever you want, but your application doesn&#x27;t have to handle it, an external application can.<p>- It&#x27;s (mostly) independent of your application, requiring less custom coding, allowing you to focus more on your app and less on the bizarre semantics of directly dealing with writes to a networked block object store.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cloud Backed SQLite</title><url>https://sqlite.org/cloudsqlite/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki</url></story> |
11,303,075 | 11,301,042 | 1 | 3 | 11,300,558 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_mql</author><text>Thank you for sharing this on HN. Just wanted to add our introduction blog post, which may clarify some of the questions asked here.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@_mql&#x2F;build-your-own-editor-with-substance-7790eb600109" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@_mql&#x2F;build-your-own-editor-with-substanc...</a><p>And some usage examples:<p>Scientific Writing
- <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;substance.io&#x2F;lens" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;substance.io&#x2F;lens</a>
- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Coko-Foundation&#x2F;pubsweet-core" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Coko-Foundation&#x2F;pubsweet-core</a>
Spreadsheet Software
- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stenci.la&#x2F;demo&#x2F;sheets&#x2F;iris" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stenci.la&#x2F;demo&#x2F;sheets&#x2F;iris</a>
Digital Archives:
- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@_daniel&#x2F;publish-interactive-historical-documents-with-archivist-7019f6408ee6#.337wsufou" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@_daniel&#x2F;publish-interactive-historical-d...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Substance: a JavaScript library for web-based content editing</title><url>http://substance.io/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>david-given</author><text>Huh. I have actually been looking for <i>precisely this</i> --- I was going to go with the Guardian&#x27;s Scribe, but I might investigate this instead.<p>Unfortunately it looks like it&#x27;s JQuery and AMD modules, and I&#x27;m a Polymer and browserify shop, so it may just not be feasible. [sad face]</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Substance: a JavaScript library for web-based content editing</title><url>http://substance.io/</url></story> |
34,760,228 | 34,759,795 | 1 | 3 | 34,759,507 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chx</author><text>&gt; Am I missing something?<p>Yeah. The company is three people with practically no money at hand. I can&#x27;t imagine this being real. Check &quot;full accounts made up to 28 February 2022&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk&#x2F;company&#x2F;10602146&#x2F;filing-history" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk&#x2F;c...</a> with cash at hand being just 13,887 pounds. How on earth are you making a laptop from that? Framework started with a nine million seed round and had the former head of hardware at Oculus as the founder for expertise in this field. Now, almost eight figures is prolly overkill but I have hard time imagining low five figures being enough. It doesn&#x27;t mean there&#x27;s malicious intent here, they just might not be fully aware of the challenges here and will find themselves in way over their head.<p>Note there&#x27;s no doxxing here, the CRN is on the contact us page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;starlabs.systems&#x2F;pages&#x2F;contact-us" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;starlabs.systems&#x2F;pages&#x2F;contact-us</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>hedora</author><text>This Linux laptop looks too good to be true.<p>It&#x27;s available with an AMD or Intel processor, there aren&#x27;t any strange ergonomic decisions (other than the stow-able web-cam). In particular, they centered they trackpad + keyboard, and it looks like it has decent thermals. The battery is rated for 18 hours. You can choose between a medium resolution, high frame rate display (UHD @ 165Hz) or a 4K 60Hz display. The screen is matte. They claim it POSTs in under a second.<p>The only real downside is the 4-5 month lead time. Am I missing something?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop</title><url>https://starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NovemberWhiskey</author><text>Have they actually <i>made</i> one yet? The pictures on the site all look like renders; and I couldn&#x27;t find any pictures of an actual prototype anywhere.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hedora</author><text>This Linux laptop looks too good to be true.<p>It&#x27;s available with an AMD or Intel processor, there aren&#x27;t any strange ergonomic decisions (other than the stow-able web-cam). In particular, they centered they trackpad + keyboard, and it looks like it has decent thermals. The battery is rated for 18 hours. You can choose between a medium resolution, high frame rate display (UHD @ 165Hz) or a 4K 60Hz display. The screen is matte. They claim it POSTs in under a second.<p>The only real downside is the 4-5 month lead time. Am I missing something?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop</title><url>https://starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter</url></story> |
31,860,666 | 31,857,756 | 1 | 3 | 31,857,244 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SamuelAdams</author><text>Why stop at children? College students have been increasingly surveilled during the pandemic and the shift to online education.<p>The popular tool Lock Down Browser is more or less spyware that takes over your device, monitors every click, and watches every movement. And yet most colleges and universities can’t reliably detect cheating even with this tool.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FTC to crack down on companies that illegally surveil children learning online</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/05/ftc-crack-down-companies-illegally-surveil-children-learning-online</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ro_bit</author><text>Is it just me or has the US Government been doing a lot of actions recently. Just today I saw two other articles about how the gov is cracking down on Juul, some anti right to repair company, etc. Is it just all getting published now?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FTC to crack down on companies that illegally surveil children learning online</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/05/ftc-crack-down-companies-illegally-surveil-children-learning-online</url></story> |
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